Becoming a Man
The Story of a Transition
$38.58
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2021
Summary
A “scrupulously honest” debut memoir that explores a trans man’s gender transition amid a pivotal political moment in America.
Becoming a Man is a “moving narrative [that] illuminates the joy, courage, necessity, and risk-taking of gender transition.” For fifty years P. Carl lived as a girl and then as a queer woman, building a career, a life, and a loving marriage, yet still waiting to realize himself in full. As Carl embarks on his gender transition, he tak…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982105105 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1982105100 |
| Author: | P. Carl |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 140mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
“In Becoming a Man, P. Carl movingly and incisively conveys experiences that range from self-perception to mortality itself; experiences that matter to all of us, regardless of our sexual identities. Becoming a Man is a profound human story.” –Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
“This moving narrative illuminates the joy, courage, necessity, and risk-taking of his gender transition and the ways his loved ones became affected and eventually enriched by it. A passionate, eloquent memoir about how “complex stories of humanity [and] our capacity for imagination are what give us hope.”–Kirkus
“In this deeply personal and moving debut memoir, theater writer Carl shares the story of his difficult yet triumphant gender transition…. Carl’s honest, timely musings illustrate the deep ruminations that can arise about one’s assigned gender at birth and the gender one becomes. Carl’s thoughts about sexuality and his compassionate feelings for sexual assault survivors will captivate readers from the first page to the last.”–Publishers Weekly
“Becoming a Man is a fierce and thoughtful memoir of a transitioning body. In grappling with his own biology, gender theory, politics, and relationships, P. Carl has proven himself an indispensable voice in the conversation around gender identity. His story is a galvanizing call to action: to love, embrace, and fight for transgender lives.”
–Jill Soloway, creator and showrunner of Transparent
”[Carl] writes with the directness and intimacy we yearn to encounter in conversation. Becoming A Man is a memoir that is jolting, honest, passionate and beautifully written.”
–Claudia Rankine
“Raw and honest, probing and skeptical, P. Carl’s Becoming a Man is thoroughly compelling–a deeply moving meditation on love, loss, and what makes a self.”
–Elizabeth Kolbert
P. Carl
P. Carl is a Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Emerson College in Boston and was awarded a 2017 Art of Change Fellowship from the Ford Foundation, the Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy for the Fall of 2018, the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Research Residency at the University of Washington, and the Anschutz Fellowship at Princeton for spring of 2020. He made theater for twenty years and now writes, teaches, travels, mountain climbs, and swims. He resides in Boston and lives with his wife of twenty-two years, the writer Lynette D’Amico and their dogs Lenny and Sonny. Becoming a Man is his first book.
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