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Boys and Oil - Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land (Paperback)
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Boys and Oil - Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land (Paperback)
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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.
9 illustrations
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