Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man, Paperback

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Winner - Best Transgender Nonfiction - 2015 Lambda Literary Awards Best Books of 2014 - Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2014 - NPR Books Best Nonficton Books of 2014 - Kirkus Reviews10 Best Transgender Non-Fiction Books - Advocate""Thomas Page Mc Bee's Man Alive hurtled through my life. I read it in a matter of hours. It's a confession, it's a poem, it's a time warp, it's a brilliant work of art. I bow down to Mc Bee--his humility, his sense of humor, his insightfulness, his structural deftness, his ability to put into words what is often said but rarely, with such visceral clarity and beauty, communicated.""--Heidi Julavits, author of The Vanishers and The Uses of Enchantment What does it really mean to be a man?In Man Alive, Thomas Page Mc Bee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life&mash; one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who almost killed him. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, Mc Bee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood and tells us how a brush with violence sent him on the quest to untangle a sinister past, and freed him to become the man he was meant to be. Man Alive engages an extraordinary personal story to tell a universal one--how we all struggle to create ourselves, and how this struggle often requires risks. Far from a transgender transition tell-all, Man Alive grapples with the larger questions of legacy and forgiveness, love and violence, agency and invisibility. Praise for Man Alive: ""Man Alive is a sweet, tender hurt of a memoir ... about forgiveness and self-discovery, but mostly it's about love, so much love. Mc Bee takes us in his capable hands and shows us what it takes to become a man who is gloriously, gloriously alive.""--Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and An Untamed State""Thomas Page Mc Bee's story of how he came to claim both his past and his future is by turns despairing and hopeful, e