She wants answers, but to find them, she risks destroying her closest relationships. Her mother told her he died years ago, but the book suggests their story had a different ending.Īlmost overnight, everything Tolan thought she knew about herself and her family has changed. It is a beautiful, engrossing, powerful, disturbing, and captivating book, and it's one I'm sure I will return to again and again. Congratulations to Comp Lit alumnus Ciahnan Darrell (PhD 2017) He recently published a book, A Lifetime of Men, which has been nominated for a Pen. Tolan is pretty sure that Michael is her father. Ultimately, A Lifetime of Men reads as a moving tribute to the strength of women, one that affirms both our right and our ability to cut our own path through the world. They bond over their shared outcast status, and their friendship quickly becomes intimate, but the relationship antagonizes the self-appointed moral watchdogs in their small town, who start to convert their threats into action. She's more clear about the relationship between her mother and Michael, a man twelve years her senior. But when she finds a manuscript on her mothers computer that promises to reveal the true story, Tolan only hesitates for a moment before curiosity compels her to read on. Her mother appears to be associated with Bo, a feisty photojournalist who flies to Cuba in pursuit of a story and becomes embedded with Castro's rebels, but Tolan can't quite work out their connection. Tolan has always let her mother have one secret - how she got that scar on her face - playing along with her mothers game of inventing outlandish tales to explain the wound away. She's hoping for answers, but instead, she finds more mysteries tucked away in her mother's past. But when she finds a manuscript on her mother's computer that promises to reveal the true story, Tolan only hesitates for a moment before curiosity compels her to read on. Tolan has always let her mother have one secret - how she got that scar on her face - playing along with her mother's game of inventing outlandish tales to explain the wound away.
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