{"product_id":"book-gt9e","title":"Boys and Oil","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality \"seems akin to a ticking bomb.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I 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 \u003ci\u003eBoys and Oil\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, \u003ci\u003eBoys and Oil\u003c\/i\u003e provides a startling portrait of an America that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49356637536560,"sku":"BDgt9e","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49356637569328,"sku":"ZEgt9e","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49356637602096,"sku":"ZMgt9e","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/gt9e-Square-cover.jpg?v=1780202858","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gt9e","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}