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Boys and Oil : Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Style:Hardcover In the holy city ofBy Taylor Brorby 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 Brorbys 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