Friday Reads: Some great books and one work of utter literary perfection
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Intro
Weekly Highlights
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby
Clothes-Pegs by Susan Scarlett, Noel Streatfeild
Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan
A Month In The Country by J.L Carr
Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O'Connell
A Note in Music by Rosamond Lehmann
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Intro
Weekly Highlights
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby
August Is a Wicked Month by Edna O‘Brien
Clothes-Pegs by Susan Scarlett
The River Ki by Sawako Ariyoshi, Mildred Tahara (Translator)
We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence by Gerald T. Conaty (Editor)
pickI loved this book. It was less about the extractive nature of the Plains than I imagined, but his story was compelling. “The American West is the playground for the country‘s obsession with exploitation and destruction, with most extractive economies near Native American reservations…Violent people who mimic the violence done to the land.”
pickA coming of age memoir by writer and activist, Taylor Brorby. Growing up as a closeted gay kid in the Midwest in North Dakota was especially difficult as he had to deal with his conservative, traditional parents, the hyper-masculinity of the American West mentality and discovering his truth along the way in this beautifully written autobiography.
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land | 
Happy Sands by Barb Howard
Platinum: Ten Filipino Stories by F. Sionil José
Sing Me Who You Are by Elizabeth Berridge
Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga, Mark Polizzotti (Translator) 2y