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Boy erased : a memoir

Conley, Garrard (author.).

Summary: "The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small-town Arkansas, Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality as a young man. 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, because of his brush with sin, stronger in his faith in God. Instead, even when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to search for his true self, empathy, and forgiveness. By examining and excavating 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." -- Dust jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0525538984
  • ISBN: 9780525538981
  • ISBN: 0735213461
  • ISBN: 9780735213463
  • ISBN: 1594633010
  • ISBN: 9781594633010
  • Physical Description: 340 pages ; 22 cm
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  • Publisher: New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2016.

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Formatted Contents Note: "A poignant account by a survivor of a church-supported sexual orientation conversion therapy facility that claimed to 'cure' homosexuality describes its intense Bible study program and the daily threats of his abandonment by family, friends and God, an experience that transformed the author's relationships and self-understandings"--NoveList.
Target Audience Note:
1080L Lexile

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Conley, Garrard
Genre: Autobiographies.
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  • 3 of 3 copies available at Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Parkland Community Library.

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