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Men I've Never Been (Hardcover)
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Men I've Never Been (Hardcover)
Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies
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Men I've Never Been recounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy
who shuns his own identity-and, ultimately, his sexual
orientation-in order to become who he thinks he's supposed to be.
Beginning with the memory of a four-year-old sitting in a dingy
dive bar, sounding out newspaper headlines while his boasting
father collects drinks from onlookers, each chapter highlights a
different image of manhood that Sadowski saw at home, at school, or
on television-from sports heroes, hunters, and game show hosts to
his charismatic but hard-drinking father. As he learns not to talk,
laugh, cry, or love, he retreats further behind a stoic mask of
silence-outwardly well-functioning but emotionally isolated,
sinking under the weight of the past. Through wrenching tragedy and
tense, life-threatening challenges, Sadowski learns to find love,
purpose, and healthy self-regard. In coming to understand his
identity and his place within his family, he meditates on the power
of real human connection and comes to grasp the damage of his
troubled upbringing and the traumas caused by toxic masculinity. By
turns comic and tragic, this nuanced memoir uncovers the false
selves we create to get along in the world and the price we pay to
maintain them.
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