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Author:

Brorby, Taylor, author.

Title:

Boys and oil : growing up gay in a fractured land / Taylor Brorby.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Liveright Publishing CorporationA Division of W. W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

340 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Brorby, Taylor.
Gay men--North Dakota--Biography.
Environmentalists--North Dakota--Biography.
Oil spills--Environmental aspects--United States.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1324090863
9781324090861

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1272856881

LCCN:

2022005151

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

LOAX706 -- Library, Eastern Iowa CC (Muscatine)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

WSPF215 -- Spencer Public Library (Spencer)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

SMPE094 -- Waverly Public Library (Waverly)