Boy erased : a memoir
Record details
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 sound file (08 hr., 13 min., 21 sec.)) : digital
remote - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Penguin Audio, 2016.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Michael Crouch. |
Summary, etc.: | A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding. 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, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed May 18, 2016). |
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Subject: | Conley, Garrard Conley, Garrard Gays United States Biography Sexual reorientation programs United States Ex-gay movement United States Gays Identity Gay men United States United States |
Genre: | Autobiographies. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |