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Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
General: :Ebook
Format: epub
Size: 7.62 MB
Description: "Brorby has written not only a truly great memoir, but also a frighteningly relevant one that speaks to the many battles we still have left to fight.
" -Jung Yun, New York Times Book Review From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality "seems akin to a ticking bomb." "I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power." So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, "a place where there is no safety in a ravaged landscape of mining and fracking." In visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an America that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections.
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Title: Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
Author: Taylor Brorby
Language: English
Subjects: United States, History, State & Local, Epub3, Midwest (IA; IL; IN; KS; MI; MN; MO; ND; NE; OH; SD; WI), Environmentalists & Naturalists, Personal Memoirs, Literary Figures, Biography & Autobiography
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