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Boy Erased

A memoir of identity, faith and family

de Garrard Conley
idioma: inglês
Editor: HARPER COLLINS, Janeiro de 2019 ‧
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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 institutionalised 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 heartbreaking, at times triumphant, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds.

«A necessary, beautiful book»
Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You

«A brilliant memoir»
Guardian

Boy Erased

A memoir of identity, faith and family

de Garrard Conley

Propriedade Descrição
ISBN: 9780008294908
Editor: HARPER COLLINS
Data de Lançamento: Janeiro de 2019
Idioma: Inglês
Dimensões: 129 x 195 x 19 mm
Encadernação: Capa mole
Páginas: 352
Tipo de produto: Livro
Classificação Temática: Livros em Inglês > Literatura > Memórias e Testemunhos
EAN: 9780008294908

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Uma ótima história, e mais poética e interessante do que eu esperava. Sem caricaturas fáceis, com um retrato honesto do movimento ex-gay e o que ele faz. Poderá ter ressonância em quem já esteve na igreja evangélica e teve dificuldades com sua sexualidade.