Description The New York Times bestselling Memoir about identity, love and understanding.
Conley lives in New York City with his husband, and.
His work can be found in The New York Times, TIME, VICE, CNN, Buzz Feed, Them, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Huffington Post, among other places.
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Conley is also a creator and producer of the podcast Un Erased, which explores the history of conversion therapy in America through interviews, historical documents, and archival materials provided by the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.
About the Author Garrard Conley is the author of the acclaimed Memoir Boy Erased, which has been translated in over a dozen languages and is now a major motion picture.
At times heart-breaking, at times triumphant, Boy Erased is a testament to love that survives despite all odds.
By confronting his buried past and the burden of a life lived in shadow, Garrard traces the complex relationships among family, faith, and community.
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.
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.
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.
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. "Every sentence of the story will stir your soul" (O Magazine).
Now a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges, directed by Joel Edgerton.
Description The New York Times bestselling Memoir about identity, love and understanding
