Junod's Memoir: Unpacking Masculinity & Dad Secrets

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Journalist Tom Junad drops a raw memoir, called In the Days of My Youth I was told what

it means to be a man, diving deep into masculinity through his.

Wild relationship with his dad.

This ain't just any book.

It's Junad turning his sharp eye on his own life, unpacking how his larger-than-life father

shaped his views on identity, truth and love.

He kicked off the project back in 2015, but it took nine years to nail the voice.

Junad wrestled with how to tell the truth without wrecking lives, steering clear of anger

or bitterness.

Halfway through, he shifted to writing like a kid full of fear, awe, helplessness, and

straight love.

Family secrets ran deep in his house, like a core rule that kept everyone on edge, growing

up that way breeds fear of what happens if you spill.

Junad says, those hidden truths feel dangerous, risking the love you got, but facing them

head on changes, everything.

The book flips the script on his dad's attempts to mold him, letting Junad claim his own

manhood, what defines a real man now, it's about breaking free from those old imprints.

Oh, and the title?

Pulled from Led Zeppelin's Good Times, Bad Times, picked by his editor, but it fits

his life like a glove.

Juno's real Zepp-fave is immigrant song for its raw, how, and impossible energy.

This memoir, Howls 2, forcing us to rethink the men who raise us and the secrets we carry.