Man Alive

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. Read Man Alive author Thomas Page McBee – kino-fada.fr This book is so, so good.If I had to say what it s about, I d say that it s about childhood sexual abuse, a gunpoint mugging as an adult, and how these two experiences informed McBee s understanding of what it means to become a man That would be a simplification, of course, but I know that sometimes when you read these reviews you want to get some idea of what the book deals with.I had lots of feelings as I read Man Alive, but the main one was awe at the author s bravery in writing about these This book is so, so good.If I had to say what it s about, I d say that it s about childhood sexual abuse, a gunpoint mugging as an adult, and how these two experiences informed McBee s understanding of what it means to become a man That wo...A well written book and an easy read, but I think I was looking forout of it It does a good job of describing McBee s personal journey to becoming a man, and the punchline not really a spoiler is that you have to be your own man But I was hoping that someone who has to make the transition to manhood as an adult and from an entirely different perspective might have some insights into what it really means to be a man in our society what the expectations are, how we respond to them, how ...Thomas Page McBee s account of his decision to move from passing to full female to male transition is testament to how a personal story can be told simply but with huge power and heart It isn t an easy story to read, I can t imagine how it was to live, as McBee explains his childhood abuse at the hands of his father and his struggle to come to terms with the potential relationship between this abuse and the development of his gender identity Because at the heart of this story is the ...I ve read a number of books and stories by trans women of late and it s great to finally read somethingfrom the trans male side of the coin shout out to Dylan Edwards and his wonderful 2012 book of comics ...If you ve been in my vicinity for this past week or so, you ve heard me go on and on about this book Gripping, poignant, heartbreaking and so so so well written and perfect This guy is gonna be huge.Excerpted from my review for Lambda Literary Thomas Page McBee s Man Alive A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man is not a memoir though, in all likelihood, it will often be characterized as such, in a testament to both the limits of cultural understandings of nonfiction and of transgender storytelling In reality, Man Alive is a gem of creative nonfiction, and an excellent example o...I reread this for class I m teaching it alongside Kai Cheng Thom s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars in my Trans Studies class it s an intense read, addressing McBee s confrontation with his history of childhood trauma as a kind of final stage that he needed to get through before entering into masculinity and new selfhood On second read, found some of the themes repetitive and a little too tidily resolved though still appreciate so much, especially the questions that are asked about g I reread this for class I m teaching it alongside Kai Cheng Thom s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars in my Trans Studies c...Unbelievable writing Impressive stuff Can t wait to readby Thomas Page McBee.This review was originally published in the Media I first met Thomas Page McBee in 2012, he was working at the now defunct alt weekly The Boston Phoenix McBee was working to make queernessvisible at the publication not just white, upper middle class gays concerned first and foremost with marriage, but lesser told stories of people who are less often heard Not because the stories aren t there, but because they are largely ignored McBee was This review was originally published in the Media I first met Thomas Page McBee in 2012, he was ...Absolutely one of the best books I ve read this year the memoir of a trans man coming to terms with violence and identity Novelistic in its layered themes, with the pacing of a thriller A work of radical empathy.I feel lucky to have read this book.

• English
• 26 November 2017
Thomas Page McBee
• Paperback
• 172 pages
• 0872866246
• Thomas Page McBee
• Man Alive