I’m a woman in my early 20’s and I love reading about people’s whose perspective in life is different from mine to increase my empathy , though I’ve come to realise while watching the first season of Atlanta that one of my major blindspots is the unique struggles that guys go through and I want to rectify that
I’m looking for a book preferebly one that tackles issues that a man in his 20’s experiences
If it helps with the recommendations one of my favourite books of all time is ‘Catcher in the rye’, I really like Ve Schwab’s and Douglas Kennedy’s writing style, I don’t mind books that have no plot as long as the characters are very strong and the prose is beautiful, my favourite style of humour is sarcastic dry humour or books where the humour comes from irony, whether it’s dramatic situational or verbal I don’t mind, I love irony
by Spirited-Blood-6737
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“The Art of Fielding” is perhaps the best book about how men relate to one another.
This is an intriguing question. There are of course many (too many) books with male protagonists but they aren’t necessarily about a peculiarly male experience. In some ways I think that is because it does not exist in the same way as it does for women which makes it a harder subject to address. Women can experience disadvantage because they are women. This makes for a natural narrative arc where disadvantage is overcome. Men just don’t have that. What men have instead (I think) is pressure to conform and perform in certain ways (which in no way is meant to downplay the effect of this). LGBTQ+ literature can therefore be the most revealing route into this because there you find the most tension. But if you’re after insight into the reality of a cishet male experience then maybe biography is something you should consider? I think My Struggle by Knausgaard might be one for you. It’s now at 6 volumes but even reading just the first might be interesting.