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"Never acknowledge the fact that you're a girl, and take take great pride in when your person friends say, 'You're one of the guys.' Tell yourself, 'I am one of the guys,' even though, in the back of your mind, just a little tone says, 'But you have gal parts.'" A girl whose self-worth revolves around masculinity, a bartender who loses her sense of security, a woman who compares men to plants, and a young man who shoots his cranked-out father. These are a few of the hard-scrabble personas in Tamara Linse's debut short storyline collection, How to be always a Man. Occur contemporary Wyoming - the misconception of the Western world taking its toll - these tales reveal the lives of tough-minded girls and boys, self-reliant people, struggling to use of their depressed lives and the psychological havoc of their own families to make a connection, to create a life regardless of the odds. How to be always a Man falls within the custom of Maile Meloy, Tom McGuane, and Annie Proulx.
