Boy erased : a memoir of identity, faith, and family / Garrard Conley.
2017
HQ75.8.C665 A3 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Boy erased : a memoir of identity, faith, and family / Garrard Conley.
Author
Conley, Garrard, author.
Edition
First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
ISBN
9780735213463 (paperback)
0735213461 (paperback)
9780525538981 (paperback)
0525538984 (paperback)
0735213461 (paperback)
9780525538981 (paperback)
0525538984 (paperback)
Published
New York : Riverhead Books, [2017]
Language
English
Description
340 pages ; 21 cm
Call Number
HQ75.8.C665 A3 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.76/6092
Summary
"The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to "cure" him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. Through an institutionalized Twelve-Step Program heavy on Bible study, he was supposed to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, cleansed of impure urges and stronger in his faith in God for his brush with sin. Instead, even when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to break out in search of his true self and forgiveness. By confronting his buried past and the burden of a life lived in shadow, Garrard traces the complex relationships among family, faith, and community. At times heart-breaking, at times triumphant, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds."--Publisher's website.
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