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Recounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity - and, ultimately, his sexual orientation - in order to become who he thinks he's supposed to be. By turns comic and tragic, this nuanced memoir uncovers the false selves we create to get along in the world and the price we pay to maintain them.

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A powerful, beautiful sock in the stomach of a memoir. It's filled with living, breathing, three-dimensional people, settings that are so vivid they have a cinematic quality, refrains and reprises that give the whole story a musical coherence. The ending will leave readers in a state of-I don't know what-grief? joy? wonder? hope? All of those and more. I can imagine this book changing lives."" - Domenica Ruta, author of the memoir With or Without You

""A compelling and exceedingly well-written memoir that is, at times, as heart-wrenching and hilarious as any book I've read in a very long time. Sadowski is a craftsman; there's so much earned empathy and experience in here that it's hard to overstate."" - Jared Yates Sexton, author of The Man They Wanted Me to Be

Men Ive Never Been

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    A Hardback by Michael Sadowski

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      Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
      Published 30 April 2021
      ISBN-13 9780299330903
      978-0299330903
      ISBN-10 0299330907
      Also in:
      LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics Psychology of gender

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Recounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity - and, ultimately, his sexual orientation - in order to become who he thinks he's supposed to be. By turns comic and tragic, this nuanced memoir uncovers the false selves we create to get along in the world and the price we pay to maintain them.

      Trade Review
      A powerful, beautiful sock in the stomach of a memoir. It's filled with living, breathing, three-dimensional people, settings that are so vivid they have a cinematic quality, refrains and reprises that give the whole story a musical coherence. The ending will leave readers in a state of-I don't know what-grief? joy? wonder? hope? All of those and more. I can imagine this book changing lives."" - Domenica Ruta, author of the memoir With or Without You

      ""A compelling and exceedingly well-written memoir that is, at times, as heart-wrenching and hilarious as any book I've read in a very long time. Sadowski is a craftsman; there's so much earned empathy and experience in here that it's hard to overstate."" - Jared Yates Sexton, author of The Man They Wanted Me to Be

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