A few years ago the novelist T Cooper wrote his parents a letter, telling them he ‘wasn’t their daughter anymore.’ And this was the ‘good news.’ Real Man Adventures is Cooper’s brash, wildly inventive, and often comic exploration of the paradoxes and pleasures of masculinity. In it he takes us through his transition into identifying as male, and how he went on to marry his wife and become an adoring stepfather of two children-the head of a perfectly nuclear American family. Cooper can be bemused or exasperated when he feels compelled to explain all this, but he never loses his sense of humor.