(McSweeney’s Books, 2013)
Charged, personal, and entirely original, Real Man Adventures is a brash, wildly inventive, and comic exploration of the paradoxes and pleasures of masculinity.
A brilliant collage of letters, essays, artwork and interviews, this book will forever change your understanding of what it means to be a man.
“Sharp, hilarious, incredibly personal and ingenuously honest.” — Interview Magazine
A collection of (mostly) original songs by (entirely) original artists— all inspired by specific chapters of the book
Humorous, surprising, and heartfelt.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Sublime confidence and spirit distinguishes this unorthodox memoir of gender and identity.”
—Kirkus
“You’ve never read a book about this particular experience told in such a compelling voice.”
—The Stranger
“This is a terrifically entertaining, often hilarious book.”
—Boston Globe
“T Cooper bravely and often hilariously shares his life as a transgender family man in Real Man Adventures.”
—Vanity Fair
The necessary change, the breakthrough we seek and need begins here in this book, with the honest questions answered and the self laid bare…Brilliant writing.”
— Saeed Jones, NPR
“In the mindbendingly good book, T Cooper gets to the heart of the what it is to be human, by circling around questions most of us don’t ever know to ask. Subtle, engaging, righteously furious and often brilliant, this book radiates infinite possibility.”
— Nick Flynn
“A deeply personal, honest, and wildly creative expression of Cooper’s view of himself and of the world in which he lives.”
—Knox News
“A completely original take on the personal transgender narrative.”
—Lambda Literary Review
Cooper emphasizes the broader concept of humanity, which makes us more similar than different.”
—The Daily Californian
“Cooper’s is an absorbing adventure.”
—Time Out Chicago
“Real Man Adventures will make you think about masculinity, visibility, and what and when you disclose—and to whom.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“Deeply honest… a brave book. The irreverent, wry humor throughout keeps Cooper’s brash personality at center stage, where it belongs.”
—Shelf Awareness
“A valuable, enlightening document that sidesteps cliché and easy answers in favor of a bracing account of what it means—for Cooper—to be a man in this world.”
—The Portland Mercury
“At turns distancing and powerfully intimate, like a person consciously revealing himself.”
—SF Weekly