Full name: Man Alive: A True Story Of Violence, Forgiveness And Becoming A Man

Author: Thomas Page McBee Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Barns&Noble Amazon Goodreads eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780872866249 0872866246

In Man Alive, McBee asks, "What does it really mean to be a man?" by focusing on two of the most impactful men in his life - the father who abused him as a child, and a mugger who threatened his life and then released him in an odd moment of mercy. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these fallen icons of manhood as he cobbles together his own identity. 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 titillating, transgender tell-all, Man Alive grapples with questions of legacy and forgiveness, love and violence, agency and invisibility. Written with the grace of a poet and the intensity of a thriller, McBee's story will haunt and inspire. Similar books: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls The Story of My Life by Helen Keller Happy, Happy, Happy by Phil Robertson Etched in Sand by Regina Calcaterra Gifted Hands by Ben Carson The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman Lucky by Alice Sebold A Million Little Pieces by James Frey The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad In Pieces by Sally Field Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius Inside Out by Demi Moore Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl As You Wish by Cary Elwes