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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Center is a small town in North Dakota. It is where the buttes begin to break against the wash of sky. It is an ecotone, a transitory region of change. As the town motto reminds visitors, It's better in Center.
#2 I escaped to the prairie when I was young, and I loved to draw. I wanted to create my own games, instead of playing the ones pre-existing in the world....
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
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[2022]
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340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality "seems akin to a ticking bomb." "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...
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