{"product_id":"boys-and-oil-taylor-brorby-9781324090861","title":"Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Taylor Brorby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324090863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324090861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2022 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2022","brand":"Taylor Brorby","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44051547128063,"sku":"9781324090861","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ba3b7424-64cc-4d8d-9209-28a7ea2617f7.jpg?v=1685013745","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/boys-and-oil-taylor-brorby-9781324090861","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}