Real Man Adventures

(Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)

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A few years ago the novelist T Cooper wrote his parents a letter, telling them he 'wasn't their daughter anymore.' And this was the 'good news.' Real Man Adventures is Cooper's brash, wildly inventive, and often comic exploration of the paradoxes and pleasures of masculinity. In it he takes us through his transition into identifying as male, and how he went on to marry his wife and become an adoring stepfather of two childrenthe head of a perfectly nuclear American family. Cooper can be bemused or exasperated when he feels compelled to explain all this, but he never loses his sense of humor.

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"Humorous, surprising, and heartfelt." --Publishers Weekly "At turns distancing and powerfully intimate, like a person consciously revealing himself." --SF Weekly "T Cooper's book is full of self consciousness, self examination, and expressions of emotion, and activism, and is inclusive of other voices in an apparently earnest effort at leveling hierarchies of I and Thou, Man and Woman, to networks of experience. It is from this position that Cooper reels to the pace of his journey, a sailor on the rungs of on an exploratory vessel. From here he chronicles both inner and outer journey, not only in his own sights from the crow's nest but in the voices of those with experience--of age, of parenthood and generations, and of the second adolescence that is transition for the transgender man." --Justin Cascio, Good Men Project

Author Bio

T Cooper is the author of three novels, including the bestselling The Beaufort Diaries and Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes. Cooper's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Believer, and One Story, among others. He lives in both New York and the South with his wife, children, and two rescue pit bulls.