A BOOK ABOUT THE PARTS THAT DO NOT FIT
the inconvenienthuman
We are more complicated than our ideas about who we should be. The harder questions begin with what does not fit.
A published work of narrative nonfiction, rooted in lived experience and organized around nine human tensions.
The theory had not become false. It had become inconveniently personal.
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What we carry. What our systems make of it. What we are permitted to become.
Human beings carry desires, loyalties, ambitions, fears, and grief older than the rules meant to govern them. Society can restrain those forces, redirect them, profit from them, or condemn them. It cannot erase them by declaring them unacceptable.
I began this book with an argument about human nature. The closer I examined it, the more the argument returned me to my own life: intimacy and the need to be chosen, the hunger for recognition and belonging, the uses of power and ambition, the duties attached to strength, and the grief and faith that resist mastery.
Neither memoir alone nor abstract theory, this is an invitation to examine what we carry, what our systems make of it, and what we are permitted to become.
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