Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Jossey-Bass a young migrant worker who

a young migrant worker who leaves his village in Henan Province to earn a living in cities—and who has an unexpected personal connection to He

and future

Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee

'A love-letter to our non-binary siblings

rendered with writerly exactness and muscularity

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Jossey-Bass a young migrant worker who"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 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 with books; and