During childhood summers in Louisiana, ANDRE DUBUS III’s grandfather taught him that men’s work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked at being a better human being. As he does in his brilliant collection of personal essays, Dubus will share moments of personal revelation with emotional generosity and stylistic grace, speaking from the heart about his successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. He’ll reflect on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun and his decision, ultimately, to give it up—his violent youth and the challenges of fatherhood, the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, the things writers remember and those they forget.