Synopses & Reviews
Review
In this mind-bendingly good book, T Cooper gets to the heart of what it is to be human by circling around questions most of us dont ever know to ask. Subtle, engaging, righteously furious and often brilliant, this book radiates infinite possibility.”Nick Flynn
Synopsis
A few years ago, the novelist T Cooper wrote his parents a letter telling them he wasnt their daughter anymore.” And that was the good news.”
Real Man Adventures is Coopers brash, wildly inventive, and often comic exploration of the paradoxes and pleasures of masculinity. 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 children. Alternately bemused and exasperated when he feels compelled to explain all this, Cooper never loses his sense of humor. Ten Things People Assume I Understand About Women But Actually Dont,” reads one chapter title, while another proffers: Sometimes I Think the Whole of Modern History Can Be Explained by Testosterone.”
A brilliant collage of letters, essays, interviews (with his brother, with his wife, with the parents of other transgender children), artwork, and sharp evocations of difficult conversations with old friends and puzzled bureaucrats, Real Man Adventures will forever change what you think about what it means to be a man.
Synopsis
A few years ago, the novelist T Cooper wrote his parents a letter telling them he "wasn't their daughter anymore." And that was the "good news."
Real Man Adventures is Cooper's brash, wildly inventive, and often comic exploration of the paradoxes and pleasures of masculinity. 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 children. Alternately bemused and exasperated when he feels compelled to explain all this, Cooper never loses his sense of humor. "Ten Things People Assume I Understand About Women But Actually Don't," reads one chapter title, while another proffers: "Sometimes I Think the Whole of Modern History Can Be Explained by Testosterone."
A brilliant collage of letters, essays, interviews (with his brother, with his wife, with the parents of other transgender children), artwork, and sharp evocations of difficult conversations with old friends and puzzled bureaucrats, Real Man Adventures will forever change what you think about what it means to be a man.
About the Author
T Cooper is the author of three novels, including the bestselling
The Beaufort Diaries and Lipshitz Six, or
Two Angry Blondes. Coopers 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.