Garrard Conley

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LUCAS HEDGES, RUSSELL CROWE AND NICOLE KIDMAN, AND WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOEL EDGERTON `A necessary, beautiful book' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You 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 institutionalised 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 heartbreaking, at times triumphant, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds.

Boy Erased (Identidad borrada) narra la historia real de Garrard Conley, hijo de un pastor bautista fundamentalista de una pequeña localidad del sur de Estados Unidos.A los 19 años, sus padres descubren que es gay y deciden enviarle a Love in Action, un centro en el que debera seguir una terapia de conversion en la que, a traves de doce pasos basados en el estudio de la Biblia, intentaran suprimir su orientacion sexual. Garrard tendra que enfrentarse a una decision que cambiara su futuro: "curar" su homosexualidad o arriesgarse a perder a su familia, a sus amigos y al Dios al que ha rezado cada dia.Desgarrador, brutal y heroico, Boy Erased (Identidad borrada) es un testimonio sobre como el amor logra vencer las mayores dificultades; un conmovedor retrato de las complejas relaciones entre la familia, la fe y la comunidad.El libro, uno de los mas vendidos en la prestigiosa lista de The New York Times, ha sido adaptado al cine por el director Joel Edgerton en una pelicula protagonizada por Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe y Lucas Hedges."El poder de la historia de Conley reside no solo en la grafica representacion de lo grotesco del sistema de terapia, sino en su lirica escritura sobre la sexualidad y el amor"(Los Angeles Times)"Cada frase de esta historia sacudira tu alma"(O, The Oprah Magazine)

''Boy Erased'' narra la historia de Garrard, el hijo de un pastor bautista fundamentalista de una pequeña ciudad de Arkansas. Cuando Garrard tiene 19 años, sus padres descubren que es homosexual, por lo que deciden enviarle a un programa de terapia de conversion en el que, a traves de doce pasos basados en el estudio de la Biblia, intentan suprimir su orientacion. Garrard se ve obligado a elegir entre asistir a este programa o no volver a ser bienvenido en su casa, lo cual significaria perder a su familia y a sus amigos. A pesar de las durisimas experiencias vividas, el joven consigue hallar la fuerza y la comprension para dejar todo eso atras e intentar encontrar el perdon y su verdadero yo.

To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community in Puritan New England. One disciple, Dr Arthur Lyman, discovers in the ministers words a love so captivating it transcends language.As the bond between the two men grows more and more passionate, their wives and children must contend with a tangled web of secrets, lies and judgments that threatens to destroy them in this world and the next.Set during the turbulent historical upheavals that shaped America, All the World Beside reveals the very human lives just beneath the surface of dogmatic belief.