Boy From the North Country

Boy From the North Country is a humorous poignant and sometimes painful memoir. Written from the perspective of a gay psychologist who survived growing up in rural Northern New York after being abandoned by his father this is a story about finding healing in mindfulness accepting and recovering from trauma and getting about the business of living.In this powerful self-help memoir Dr. Durant takes us from the winding backroads of Northern New York while describing white-knuckle tales of parental volatility. Told with the energy and suspense of a car chase the book careens from stories of childhood innocence in Upstate New York to the late-night parties in gay San Francisco in an attempt to tell us how one man finds himself navigating back from the isolation imposed by trauma. It is a story of survival. Part Beautiful Thing part A Place at the Table Boy From the North Country is written by a clinical psychologist who learned how to survive as a gay kid in rural America…the hard way. Combining insights from his studies of trauma as a psychologist his own meditation on the trials of his life and from the personal narratives told to him by his patients at his Manhattan practice Dr. Durant’s story provides both a cautionary tale on what happens when we abandon the needs of our gay kids and offers a bit of hope for those struggling to survive.