Bledsoe Lucy Jane
Bledsoe Lucy Jane - Tell The Rest - Hardcover
Bledsoe Lucy Jane - Tell The Rest - Hardcover
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Description: Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp a church - supported conversion therapy programme - the dubious unscientific Christian practice meant to change a person's sexuality. After witnessing a devastating tragedy they escaped in the night only to take separate roads to their distant homes. They have no idea how each has fared through the years. Delia is a college basketball coach who prides herself on being an empowering and self - possessed role model for her players. But when she gets fired from her elite East Coast college she's forced to return to her hometown of Rockside Oregon to coach at her high school alma mater. Ernest meanwhile is a renowned poet with a temporary teaching job in Portland Oregon. His work has always been boundary - pushing fearless. But the poem he's most wanted to write - about his dangerous escape from Celebration Camp - remains stubbornly out of reach. Both persist in the mission to overcome the consequences and inhumane costs of conversion therapy. As events find them hurtling toward each other once again they both grapple with the necessity of remaining steadfast in one's truth no matter how slippery that can be. TELL THE REST is a powerful novel about coming to terms with family history violence loss sexuality and ultimately with love.
Title: Tell The Rest
Author(s): Bledsoe Lucy Jane
Publisher: Akashic Books U. S.
Barcode: 9781636140797
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 3/7/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp a church - supported conversion therapy programme - the dubious unscientific Christian practice meant to change a person's sexuality. After witnessing a devastating tragedy they escaped in the night only to take separate roads to their distant homes. They have no idea how each has fared through the years. Delia is a college basketball coach who prides herself on being an empowering and self - possessed role model for her players. But when she gets fired from her elite East Coast college she's forced to return to her hometown of Rockside Oregon to coach at her high school alma mater. Ernest meanwhile is a renowned poet with a temporary teaching job in Portland Oregon. His work has always been boundary - pushing fearless. But the poem he's most wanted to write - about his dangerous escape from Celebration Camp - remains stubbornly out of reach. Both persist in the mission to overcome the consequences and inhumane costs of conversion therapy. As events find them hurtling toward each other once again they both grapple with the necessity of remaining steadfast in one's truth no matter how slippery that can be. TELL THE REST is a powerful novel about coming to terms with family history violence loss sexuality and ultimately with love.
Title: Tell The Rest
Author(s): Bledsoe Lucy Jane
Publisher: Akashic Books U. S.
Barcode: 9781636140797
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 3/7/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
