The I Index

Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition

Bottom of the pile

24

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

30/100

Critics

17/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

P. Carl

Publisher:

Simon Schuster

Date:

January 28, 2020

The debut 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.

What The Reviewers Say

Garrard Conley,
The New York Times Book Review
One of the most striking effects of Carl’s 'doubling' is the insight it offers into how difficult it is to be a good man.
June Sawyers,
Booklist
... wondrous.
Abby Hargreaves,
Library Journal
Carl marks his debut with a series of chapters that read more like individual essays than a continuous narrative.

Publishers Weekly
... deeply personal and moving.