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Garrard Conley is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Boy Erased, as well as the creator and co-producer of the podcast UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America. His work has been published by the New York Times, Oxford American, Time and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Conley is a graduate of Brooklyn College's MFA program, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow specializing in fiction. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Kennesaw State University.
A gorgeous, spellbinding work of historical fiction that conjures up a society wrestling with faith, love and a sense of belonging. It is a heartbreaking account of forbidden passions and lost innocence told with intimate, lyrical beauty. It is truly sublime. I loved it -- Douglas Stuart Part spell, part prayer, wholly mesmerizing. Garrard Conley casts the same magic in fiction as in the memoir that made him famous -- Torrey Peters, author of DETRANSITION BABY In this accomplishment of breathtaking prose, expert pacing and extraordinary psychological intelligence, Conley presents a world as it was, as it is, and as it could be. A triumph. -- Tess Gunty, author of THE RABBIT HUTCH A soaring, beautiful novel, at once sweeping and deeply personal...Part restoration and part reclamation, Conley's bold new American myth simply sings -- Brandon Taylor, author of THE LATE AMERICANS Garrard Conley has found a new and ravishing music: a language that straddles the 18th and 21st centuries, a vehicle for faith and desire. In its closing movements, this novel contains some of the finest writing I've encountered in recent American fiction -- Garth Greenwell, author of CLEANNESS Teaches us that in Puritan America the scarlet letter was not A for adultery but H for homosexuality and that the only romance with God is tense and tragic -- Edmund White
