Boys and Oil

Taylor Brorby

Buch

Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

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Publisher:: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 06/2025
Binding:: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9781324096788
Item number:: 11997465
Volume:: 352 Pages
Weight:: 283 g
Format:: 211 x 140 mm
Thickness:: 23 mm
Release date:: 3.6.2025
Note: Caution: Product is not in German language

Blurb

"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.