Boy Erased - A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

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.

Product details

• Authors: Garrard Conley
• Publisher: Riverhead
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780735213463
• ISBN: 978-0-7352-1346-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Biography: general, Memoirs, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Gay & Lesbian studies, Biography: writers, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Relating to LGBTQIA+ people, LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics