Press Kit
This page is for journalists, book clubs, event organizers, and anyone seeking background information about Todd Boler and A Divided Life. Here you’ll find a brief author bio, a downloadable photo, and links to additional resources.
Sample chapters from A Divided Life are available upon request. For more details, discussion questions, book club inquiries, or interview requests, please use the contact information below.
A Divided Life is a memoir about growing up gay in a small Midwestern town in the 70's and early 80's where survival meant learning to hide. Todd Boler’s story traces the long psychological cost of living divided—outwardly functioning, inwardly fractured. Rather than centering on a single dramatic coming-out, the book explores how silence, compartmentalization, and self-negotiation become strategies for endurance. Over time, these same strategies exact a price. Through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, Boler recounts friendships, faith, longing, and the quiet fatigue of managing oneself endlessly. The memoir does not assign blame or offer easy answers. Instead, it explores how coping mechanisms that once protected a person can eventually limit them, and how healing often arrives not as revelation or triumph, but as permission: the end of an internal argument, the beginning of living more honestly.
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