“Everyone can learn something about courage and self-discovery from Becoming a Man.” - San Francisco Chronicle
“Fiercely committed to bequeathing a map of his psychic terrain, to spare others the pain of his solitary journey, [Monette’s] fine memoir is affirmative and ultimately celebratory.” - New York Times Book Review
“Monette’s interior life, his ghosts, his turmoil, his final peace -- in Becoming a Man, they have become our literature.” - --David Ebershoff, author of Pasadena and The Danish Girl
“Beautifully written…a heartfelt illumination of how a gay person overcame the self-reproach that societal condemnation enacts.” - Publishers Weekly
“A poignant, bittersweet memoir….Each stage of [Monette’s] personal journey is described at an intimate, insightful, human level.” - Library Journal
“Remarkable…unsparingly observed and beautifully written….The power of this riveting book is in part the application of Monette’s acute intelligence, his ceaseless observation and his cagey wit to a simple, impossible problem. American culture demanded of Paul—as it still demands of lesbian and gay youth—that he be the one thing he could not be: straight….Thrilling and painful for those of us who know firsthand what he is talking about. For those who have been unaware, this is a necessary book.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review