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A poignant look at boyhood, in the form of a heartfelt letter from comedian Michael Ian Black to his teenage son before he leaves for college, and a radical plea for rethinking masculinity and teaching young men to give and receive love. "I know, I know. I tell you I love you every day," Black writes. "Multiple times a day. It's probably annoying to you that I say it so much, but I think it's important. Our reluctance as men to express love is part of what I want to talk to you about in these pages." In time for Father's Day, A Better Man is a thoughtful, witty, ambitious, and self-deprecating examination of the meaning of manhood and the "toxic masculinity" that is being blamed for so much of the violence across America today.