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Chargement... Tell the Restpar Lucy Jane Bledsoe
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. I received this book from LibraryThings early reviewers program. The premise was that Delia returned to her home town for a job as well as to confront and come to terms with her forced attendance at a conversion camp for gay/homosexual/queer teens. Also to come to terms with her relationship with the pastor of the church that held the camp. A parallel plot line was the character returning to her high school as the new basketball coach for the women's team. The chapters alternate from her current coaching to her relationship with two other teens who were at the camp. I wish the book would have held to her return and finding some closure with the camp experience and her relationships with the other teens she met and escaped the camp with. However, the book veered into the plot line of her return to coaching, her relationship with the players, the players back stories, and their quest for a championship. I don't know if the author was trying to draw parallels between the camp experience and the return to basketball, but for me this drug the book down into a basketball story instead of her experiences at the conversion camp and the demons she faced in her life because of it. If the novel would have stayed with only one plot line, I feel I would have enjoyed it more. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. 3.5 stars
This novel focuses on Delia, a basketball coach forced to return to her small hometown where she will have to confront her past experiences at a Christian conversion camp. I liked the book overall and felt it did a good job at addressing the traumas that many have endured at these camps and other forced conversion "therapies." But while I appreciated Delia's story, I would have liked to know more of Ernest's and Cal's stories as they seemed to be the ones who bore the brunt of the abuses.Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. As a teenager Delia was sent away one summer to an anti-gay, conversion therapy camp, an overwhelmingly traumatizing experience. Now, many years later, after having been let go from her position as head coach for a college basketball team, Delia returns to her childhood home in Oregon to coach her old high school team. But coming home will also mean facing people, events, places and emotions from the past.I was skeptical for the first chapter or two, because I initially detected more "tell" than "show" in the narrative and grew concerned. However, Bledsoe soon found her stride, and by mid-point I was fully engrossed. There is a fair amount of pain and trauma, but there are an equal number of moments of hope and inspiration. Religious bigots may have an abysmal record for successful conversions, but they certainly reign undefeated in cruelty. I received this ARC via LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program-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"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Ultimately too much basketball/sports for me to recommend it unabashedly. I really struggled with reading the basketball descriptions. Not my thing. ( )