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1 author picked Boys and Oil as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Taylor Broby's opening is a thing of brilliance. His insights into his own gayness, as it relates to the extraction economy, is as breathtaking as it is informing about the mighty nation that is America. Sentence by sentence, Brorby informs us about how place shapes people, wonderfully inviting us to consider what ground under our own feet shaped us, as well.

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