![]() ![]() Carl is defensive, focused on his own hurt feelings. “I miss Polly,” she tells their couples therapist, using the name of the woman she had known before the transition. If he hadn’t transitioned, they would still be “two women in this together.” As it is, she feels alone. She reacts with anger, not just at the cancer, but also at him. ![]() Shortly after Carl’s transition, his wife, Lynette, learns that she has uterine cancer. He shares his joy at his new identity-this is, after all, what he has always wanted-as well as the challenges it presents to the relationships in his life. The book is a celebration of self-discovery, as Carl, over a two-year period that coincides with the start of the Trump Administration, transitions from a queer woman to transgender man. In his memoir, Carl, who after a long career in theater is now an artist-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston, performs a remarkable feat of personal truth-telling. Carl’s new book, Becoming a Man, delivers a powerful blend of raw candor and tender vulnerability. 28 by Simon & Schuster.Ī great memoir takes us into the life of someone whose experience may be quite different than our own, and makes us feel the complicated reality of their own efforts to make sense of it. Carl, is scheduled to be published on Jan. “Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition,” By P. ![]()
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