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Boy erased : a memoir of identity, faith, and family Cover Image Book Book

Boy erased : a memoir of identity, faith, and family

Conley, Garrard (author.).

Summary: "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."--Publisher's website.

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  • ISBN: 9780525538981
  • ISBN: 0525538984
  • ISBN: 0735213461
  • ISBN: 9780735213463
  • Physical Description: print
    340 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, [2017]

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