Boy Erased by Garrard Conley

Boy Erased by Garrard Conley

The New York Times bestselling memoir about identity, love and understanding. Now a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges, directed by Joel Edgerton. Every sentence of the story will stir your soul (O Magazine).

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, Boy Erased is a testament to love that survives despite all odds.

Garrard Conley is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Boy Erased, which has been adapted into a major film picture and has been translated into over a dozen languages. Conley is also the founder and producer of the podcast UnErased, which uses interviews, historical records, and archive materials from the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C. to explore the history of conversion therapy in America. His work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, TIME, VICE, CNN, BuzzFeed, Them, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Huffington Post. Conley and his partner live in New York City, and he is now working on a novel about the life of queer people in the 18th century. On Twitter, he's @gayrodcon, and his website is garrardconley.com.

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ISBN 13	9781594633010
ISBN 10	1594633010
Title	Boy Erased
Author	Garrard Conley
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Riverhead Books
Year published	2016-05-10
Number of pages	352
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