{"product_id":"9781324090861","title":"Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA 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, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e 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.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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 \u003cem\u003eBoys and Oil\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003cem\u003eBoys and Oil\u003c\/em\u003e provides a startling portrait of an America that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041405452528,"sku":"9781324090861","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781324090861_p0.jpg?v=1763707816","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781324090861","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}