Boy Erased

How queer people survive erasure, self-inflicted or otherwise, is at the heart of Garrard Conley’s stunning debut memoir, Boy Erased. His father, a Baptist preacher who sought to lead at least a thousand souls to the Lord, held daily Bible study at his Ford dealership and interpreted events like earthquakes and war in the Middle East as signs of the End Times...a gut-punch of a memoir, but the miracle of this book is the generosity with which Conley writes in an effort to understand the circumstances and motivations that led his family to seek the “cure.” [at gay conversion center, Love in Action]. - L.A. Review of Books