02408cam a2200373 i 4500 559766308 TxGeo 20220527120000.0 220208s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022005151 9781324090861 hbk. 1324090863 hbk. (OCoLC)1272856881 TxGeo rda Brorby, Taylor, author. Boys and oil : growing up gay in a fractured land / Taylor Brorby. First edition. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2022] 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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 ... 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. 20220615. Brorby, Taylor. Gay men North Dakota Biography. Environmentalists North Dakota Biography. Oil spills Environmental aspects United States. Autobiographies. QS5