Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Kevin M. Strait XL - approx wmns sz

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Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Kevin M. Strait XL - approx wmns szI 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