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 Reviews 10 Best
Transgender Non-Fiction Books - Advocate "Thomas Page McBee'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 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."--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 McBee attempts to answer that question by
focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life 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.
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. McBee 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 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." --Ann Friedman, columnist,
New York Magazine "'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."--Maggie Nelson,
author of Bluets and The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning "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."----Saeed Jones, author of Prelude to Bruise "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." --Jack Halberstam, author
of The Queer Art of Failure About the Author: Thomas Page McBee was
the "masculinity expert" for VICE and writes the columns "Self-Made
Man" for The Rumpus and "The American Man" for Pacific Standard.
His essays and reportage have appeared in the the New York Times,
TheAtlantic.com, Salon, and BuzzFeed, where he was a regular
contributor on gender issues. He lives in New York City where he
works as the editor of special projects at Quartz, and is currently
at work on a book about modern American masculinity.
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