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Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition Audiobook
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“A memoir that is jolting, honest, passionate, and beautifully written” (Claudia Rankine), Becoming a Man explores one man’s gender transition amid a pivotal political moment in America.
Becoming a Man is the striking memoir of P. Carl’s journey to become the man he always knew himself to be. For fifty years, he lived as a girl and 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 takes us inside the complex shifts and questions that arise throughout—the alternating moments of arrival and estrangement. He writes intimately about how transitioning reconfigures both his own inner experience and his closest bonds—his twenty-year relationship with his wife, Lynette; his already tumultuous relationships with his parents; and seemingly solid friendships that are subtly altered, often painfully and wordlessly.
Carl blends the remarkable story of his own personal journey with incisive cultural commentary, writing brilliantly about gender, power, and inequality in America. His transition occurs amid the rise of the Trump administration and the #MeToo movement—a transition point in America’s own story, when transphobia and toxic masculinity are under fire even as they thrive in the highest halls of power. Carl’s quest to become himself and to reckon with his masculinity mirrors, in many ways, the challenge before the country as a whole, to imagine a society where every member can have a vibrant, livable life. Here, through this brave and deeply personal work, Carl brings an unparalleled new voice to this conversation.
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“P. Carl narrates this story of becoming himself with a raw, emotional intensity that makes for an unforgettable listening experience…The specificity of this trans man’s life is one that listeners will not soon forget.”
— AudioFile
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“In a scrupulously honest memoir, P. Carl examines how his transition upended both his marriage and his notions of white masculinity.”
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“Carl…gives thoughtful insight into how hard it is to be a good man—or at least the kind of man he wants to be.”
— New York Times Book Review -
“Deeply personal and moving…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 -
“[Carl] writes with the directness and intimacy we yearn to encounter in conversation.”
— Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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About 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.