Blurb

Every morning for a year and a half of her life, independent journalist and up-and-coming author Norah Vincent applied a five o’clock shadow, donned wired-rimmed glasses, and dressed in baggy men’s clothes posing as creative male alter-ego “Ned”. With her newfound identity Vincent immerses herself in the culture of the male world—frequenting strip clubs, joining a male bowling league, and temporarily living in a monastery—all while gaining keen insight and perspective on the rigid codes and rituals of gender identity. In the refreshingly honest and deeply inquisitive Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Journey into Manhood and Back Again, Vincent [will have readers] “taking a riveting and richly illuminating journey into some of their own deepest truths”(Bruce Bawer, author of While Europe Slept).