Summary of Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil

By IRB Media

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#1 Center is a small town in North Dakota. It is where the buttes begin to break against the wash of sky. It is an ecotone, a transitory region of change. As the town motto reminds visitors, It’s better in Center.

#2 I escaped to the prairie when I was young, and I loved to draw. I wanted to create my own games, instead of playing the ones pre-existing in the world. I wanted a larger world.

#3 When you grow up knowing you come from a place no one visits, your dreams are set on staying put and doing what you’ve been trained to do: make your money by destroying the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822543362

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Center is a small town in North Dakota. It is where the buttes begin to break against the wash of sky. It is an ecotone, a transitory region of change. As the town motto reminds visitors, It’s better in Center.

#2

I escaped to the prairie when I was young, and I loved to draw. I wanted to create my own games, instead of playing the ones pre-existing in the world. I wanted a larger world.

#3

When you grow up knowing you come from a place no one visits, your dreams are set on staying put and doing what you’ve been trained to do: make your money by destroying the world.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The prairie is best seen in fall. In a land where light is abundant, it is only in fall when its sheer intensity and radiant glory is felt. The prairie is fragile, and to be of the prairie is to recognize its fragility.

#2

The prairie is a place that requires patience. It takes time for it to flourish. It is a place that reveals what’s underneath it, and it requires attentiveness and stillness to see it.

#3

The center of the continent, the mixed-grass prairie of North Dakota, is the geographic center of the country. But we are a culture that plays to the edges. We are fascinated with coastal cities, density, and building against space.

#4

The coal miner’s life was difficult, but it provided the family with food and heat.

#5

When I was a kid, I used to love visiting my grandma.