Tell the Rest

A Novel

De: Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Narrado por: Hayden Bishop, Ron Butler

Duración: 10 h y 2 m

Resumen del Editor

Two estranged childhood friends find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart.

Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program—a dubious, unscientific Christian practice meant to “change” a person’s sexuality. After witnessing a close friend suffer a devastating tragedy in the hands of the camp “counselors,” they escaped in the night, only to take separate roads to their distant homes.

They have no idea how each have 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 university and loses her wife to another woman in rapid succession, she returns to her hometown of Rockside, Oregon, to coach the girls’ basketball team at her high school alma mater.

Ernest, meanwhile, is a renowned poet in New York City who’s left behind his loving husband for 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 remain on a 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.

©2023 Lucy Jane Bledsoe (P)2023 Spotify Audiobooks

Excellent coming of age story

Even though many of the experiences of these gay characters went through and what I specifically went through are different the feelings these characters endured were very familiar. Well written characters and interesting story- how religion and sports can both be a refuge, belonging or a source of pain and disappointment.