Boys and oil : growing up gay in a fractured land /
Brorby, Taylor,
Boys and oil : growing up gay in a fractured land / Taylor Brorby. - First edition. - 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"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"--
9781324090861 1324090863
2022005151
Brorby, Taylor.
Gay men--North Dakota--Biography.
Environmentalists--North Dakota--Biography.
Oil spills--Environmental aspects--United States.
Autobiographies.
LGBTQ+.
Boys and oil : growing up gay in a fractured land / Taylor Brorby. - First edition. - 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"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"--
9781324090861 1324090863
2022005151
Brorby, Taylor.
Gay men--North Dakota--Biography.
Environmentalists--North Dakota--Biography.
Oil spills--Environmental aspects--United States.
Autobiographies.
LGBTQ+.