Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Jossey-Bass until John leaves her

until John leaves her

theatre was graced with a host of unforgettable characters - from thrill killers to historical figures to drag performers

rendered with writerly exactness and muscularity

It describes and clarifies the effects of separating babies from their birth mothers as a primal loss which affects the relationships of the adopted person throughout life

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Jossey-Bass until John leaves her"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