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?
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评分#震惊了…这种去同性恋倾向的“治疗机构”和邪教有什么区别? 这种毫无人性的机构(劝参与者自杀),之所以在之前有市场(特别是美国南部),作者说是因为宗教信仰的关系;而这种机构给参与者带来的创伤可能会一辈子都存在。好在书的最后说,目前这种机构在美国已经被禁止了。 希望是吧。
评分电影可千万别照着书的时间线拍,略乱
评分#震惊了…这种去同性恋倾向的“治疗机构”和邪教有什么区别? 这种毫无人性的机构(劝参与者自杀),之所以在之前有市场(特别是美国南部),作者说是因为宗教信仰的关系;而这种机构给参与者带来的创伤可能会一辈子都存在。好在书的最后说,目前这种机构在美国已经被禁止了。 希望是吧。
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