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1 online resource (7 audio files) : digital |
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08:13:24 |
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audio file rda |
| Note |
Unabridged. |
| Performer |
Narrator: Michael Crouch. |
| Summary |
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" (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. 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. |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 231520 KB). |
| Subject |
Conley, Garrard -- Sound recordings.
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Gays -- United States -- Biography.
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Conversion therapy -- United States -- Sound recordings.
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Ex-gay movement -- United States -- Sound recordings.
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Gays -- Identity -- Sound recordings.
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Gay men -- United States -- Sound recordings.
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| Genre |
Autobiographies.
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Electronic audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Crouch, Michael.
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| ISBN |
9780399567438 (sound recording) |
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