Author: Davidfnycountry Austine Ogbadu

The Masculinity Manual And Other Stories

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ABOUT THE BOOK With hopes that we can all be a little more honest with ourselves, award-winning Nigerian Creative Artist and Thespian Davidfnycountry Austine Ogbadu brings together seventeen stories about the strange, intimate and often violent ways people learn to live with one another—and with themselves. Darkly funny, psychologically intimate and unafraid of contradiction, The Masculinity Manual examines the rules we inherit, the parts we perform, and the damage that can be done in the name of becoming who the world expects us to be. Through stories of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, faith and fear, love and resentment, envy, madness and joy, forgiveness and obsession, Ogbadu explores religion, societal expectations, money-driven lives, and the truths we hide from others and ourselves. Enter his world, where the things we are taught to become can become the very things we must eventually question. Because masculinity is never only about men.

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