{"product_id":"man-alive-a-true-story-of-violence-forgiveness-and-becoming-a-man-paperback","title":"Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Page McBee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner - Best Transgender Nonfiction - 2015 Lambda Literary Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBest Books of 2014 - \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBest Books of 2014 - NPR Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBest Nonficton Books of 2014 - \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e10 Best Transgender Non-Fiction Books - \u003cem\u003eAdvocate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Thomas Page McBee's \u003cem\u003eMan Alive\u003c\/em\u003e 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 McBee--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.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eHeidi Julavits\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Vanishers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Uses of Enchantment\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it really mean to be a man?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMan Alive\u003c\/em\u003e, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life\u0026amp;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, McBee 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMan Alive\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eMan Alive\u003c\/em\u003e grapples with the larger questions of legacy and forgiveness, love and violence, agency and invisibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eMan Alive: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMan Alive\u003c\/em\u003e is a sweet, tender hurt of a memoir ... about forgiveness and self-discovery, but mostly it's about love, so much love. McBee takes us in his capable hands and shows us what it takes to become a man who is gloriously, gloriously alive.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eRoxane Gay\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eBad Feminist\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAn Untamed State\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Thomas Page McBee's story of how he came to claim both his past and his future is by turns despairing and hopeful, exceptional and relatable. To read it is to witness the birth of a fuller, truer self. I loved this book.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eAnn Friedman\u003c\/strong\u003e, columnist, \u003cem\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'Whoever's child I am, my body belongs to me, ' McBee writes, and his book is an elegant, generous transcription of the journey toward this incandescent, non-aggrandized, life-sustaining form of self-possession--the kind that emanates from dispossession, rather than running from it.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eMaggie Nelson\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eBluets\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Well aware that memory and identity rarely follow a linear path, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer the question, 'What does it really mean to be a man?' Weaving past and present to do so, the book's journey connects violence, masculinity and forgiveness. McBee has an intelligent heart, and it beats in every sentence of this gorgeous book.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eSaeed Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003ePrelude to Bruise\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Exquisitely written and bristling with emotion, this important book reminds us of how much vulnerability and violence inheres to any identity. A real achievement of form and narrative.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eJack Halberstam\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Queer Art of Failure\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Page McBee writes the column \"Self-Made Man\" for \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, and his writings on gender have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and via TheAtlantic.com, \u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e. Thomas gives lectures on masculinity and media narratives across the country. 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