A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding.
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.
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不在宗教氛围浓重的环境成长，应该是体会不到作者那种被撕裂的感觉吧。最后抹掉的是作者在上帝通讯录上存着的名字吗？
评分It doesn't matter. Being a good person is all that matters.
评分电影可千万别照着书的时间线拍，略乱
评分「it must have felt really dull to be straight so surreal to feel this way:me myself posing as the very casting crew busy assigning these vivid 'imaginary' beings away while reading out. religious part do me no good tbh(correction related. family/emotions holds the longest. waitlist susu&lucas/David/montage/ ....other cast(well. #Awareness is all
评分It doesn't matter. Being a good person is all that matters.
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