Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Kevin M. Strait holds the divine power to

holds the divine power to move the earth

SUITABLE FOR ALL: change up the rules to make the game easier or harder for all ages and abilities

from place to new place where people speak languages unfamiliar to his ears

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FULL-COLOR

Yardage: 280 yards

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Kevin M. Strait holds the divine power toI am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power. So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, a place where there is no safety in a ravaged landscape of mining and fracking. In visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how