Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Brorby, Taylor

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

"I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture...
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Author: Taylor Brorby
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Language: English
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Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Brorby, Taylor

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

$19.99

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

$19.99
Author: Taylor Brorby
Format: Paperback
Language: English

"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.



Author: Taylor Brorby
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 06/03/2025
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781324096788

About the Author
Brorby, Taylor: - Taylor Brorby is an essayist and poet. The coeditor of Fracture, his work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Orion, and North American Review, where he is a contributing editor.

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