Boy Erased (Movie Tie-In): A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family
Descriere
The New York Times bestselling memoir about identity, love and understanding. Now a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges, directed by Joel Edgerton. “Every sentence of the story will stir your soul” (O Magazine).
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 institutionalized 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.
Despre autor
Garrard Conley este un autor american și activist LGBTQ cunoscut pentru autobiografia sa, Boy Erased: A Memoir, în care își povestește copilăria ca parte a unei familii fundamentaliste din Arkansas care l-a înscris la terapia de conversie. Cartea a fost adaptată pentru filmul din 2018, Boy Erased.
