Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Games "—Buzzfeed

"—Buzzfeed

of those around him

With his funny

the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself

The soul does that

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Games "—BuzzfeedA Bioneers Best Reads Selection "Brorby has written not only a truly great memoir, but also a frighteningly relevant one that speaks to the many battles we still have left to fight." Jung Yun, New York Times Book Review From 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. I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide