How I Became a Man: A Life with Communists, Atheists, and Other Nice People

Author: Alexander Krylov

This book takes us into the heart of the Soviet Union, where Alexander Krylov grew up as an underground Catholic in the 1970s and 1980s, never even entering a church until he was a teenager. How does faith in God live on when God is outlawed????????????¡How I Became a Man???????????¡shows us, offering glimpses at the everyday reality of Communism through the eyes of a child, with humor, irony, and a keen sense of human goodness.

Divided into short vignettes, this book challenges us look at our own lives differently???????especially with regard to freedom.???????????¡How I Became a Man???????????¡is a courageous, joyous, even whimsical testimony of living the Catholic faith in today's world.