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The New York Times bestselling memoir about identity, love and understanding. Now an immense motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges, directed by Joel Edgerton. “Each 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 used to be terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard used to be a nineteen-year-old college student, he used to be outed to his parents, and used to be 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 circle of relatives, friends, and the God he had prayed to each day of his life. Through an institutionalized Twelve-Step Program heavy on Bible study, he used to be supposed to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, cleansed of impure urges and stronger in his faith in God for his brush with sin. As an alternative, even if faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to break out searching for his true self and forgiveness.

By confronting his buried past and the burden of a life lived in shadow, Garrard traces the complex relationships among circle of relatives, faith, and community. Every now and then heart-breaking, Every now and then triumphant, Boy Erased is a testament to love that survives in spite of all odds.
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