American Men : Stories of Modern Masculinity

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What does it really mean to be a man today?American Men is an exploration of the rarely-discussed crevices of men’s lives. Through the lives of four very different men it explores the traumas they’ve suffered and ways they’ve recovered, the ways they’ve both inflicted and survived violence, their relationships to sex and their own bodies, how they’ve wielded power and struggled with powerlessness, while trying to build families, friendships, and fuller relationships to themselves. The book's protagonists include Ryan, struggling to come to terms with his sexuality; Gideon, a former sports star who unravels when he encounters challenges to his status as the masculine ideal; Joseph, a law student contending with the effects of childhood sexual trauma; and Nate, a man still living at home and trying to establish security for himself in rural Ohio, where he’s under threat as someone who is Black, trans, and poor.