Bibliograph

Boys and oil, growing up gay in a fractured land, Taylor Brorby

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Boys and oil, growing up gay in a fractured land, Taylor Brorby

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Boys and oil

Oclc number

1272856881

Responsibility statement

Taylor Brorby

Sub title

growing up gay in a fractured land

Summary

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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