04024cam a2200829 4500 363107207 TxAuBib 20181108120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780698155558 0698155556 B0141ZP3JW Amazon 7b5e85bb-0cdb-456c-a417-1c642dc2a7f1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2461867 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Conley, Garrard. Boy Erased [Bridges eBook] : A Memoir. Penguin Publishing Group, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 606kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 496kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. biographies of famous people. book club recommendations. biographies and memoirs. literary biographies. autobiography books. conversion therapy. autobiographies. LGBT literature. Social Justice. Literary gifts. relationships. Autobiography. family memoir. Spirituality. memoir books. biographies. lgbt memoir. psychology. literature. gay memoir. lgbt books. Biography. self help. Sociology. activism. marriage. Identity. feminism. judaism. Justice. Memoirs. Lesbian. family. Essays. memoir. gender. Death. grief. Cults. love. LGBT. Gay. HTML:<b>A beautiful, raw and compassionate 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" (<i>O Magazine</i>).</b><br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> By confronting his buried past and the burden of a life lived in shadow, Garrard traces the complex relationships among family, faith, and community. At times heart-breaking, at times triumphant, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds. Biography & Autobiography. Gay/Lesbian. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2018-11-08 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7b5e85bb-0cdb-456c-a417-1c642dc2a7f1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7b5e85bb-0cdb-456c-a417-1c642dc2a7f1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7b5e85bb-0cdb-456c-a417-1c642dc2a7f1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)