Join local author and filmmaker Harjant Gill for a conversation about his new book Coming of Age in Macholand: Masculinity, Patriarchy, and the Search for Freedom in Indian Punjab, followed by a book signing. Drawing on years of ethnographic research, Gill takes readers into the lives of Punjabi men negotiating family expectations, friendship, migration, love, and the pressures of becoming a man. The book asks what masculinity promises, what it demands, and how patriarchal power shapes people’s choices.
Blending intimate stories with anthropology, history, and personal reflection, Coming of Age in Macholand explores how social change, caste, land, sexuality, and migration shape life in Punjab and its diaspora. Gill challenges familiar claims about a worldwide crisis of masculinity by grounding the discussion in people’s experiences.
Join us at Busboys and Poets, 14th & V, for a discussion of the book’s themes, followed by an opportunity to meet the author and have your copy signed.
