Taylor Brorby

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Bioneers Best Reads Selection

"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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324090878
• Artikelnr.: 62838496

Autorenporträt

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.