Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/264431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boy Erased: A Memoir Author: Garrard Conley Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 10, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.47 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling 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.