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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“The transformation for the vast majority of homosexuals will not include a change of sexual orientation.”, where their essence lies. When we talk about sin, fear, abomination, bear in mind love is what matters most in god’s eyes. Every time you repeat amen in church, think, a child is listening. （是的，我无法不将作者的经历与Prayers for Bobby联系起来。他逃脱了，但Bobby没有。）
评分“The transformation for the vast majority of homosexuals will not include a change of sexual orientation.”, where their essence lies. When we talk about sin, fear, abomination, bear in mind love is what matters most in god’s eyes. Every time you repeat amen in church, think, a child is listening. （是的，我无法不将作者的经历与Prayers for Bobby联系起来。他逃脱了，但Bobby没有。）
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评分This is a book about love, it has a rated movie with the same name, similar to "Call Me By Your Name". And if you need ebook, please visit wechat public page: iAudioBook
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