02221cam a2200289 4500 656427093 TxAuBib 20230417120000.0 230213s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781636140797 HRD 28.95 1636140793 HRD 28.95 TxAuBib Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. Tell the rest [BOOK] / Lucy Jane Bledsoe. 1st ed. Brooklyn N.Y. : Akashic Books, 2023. 331 pages ; 24 cm. "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. It is a powerful novel about coming to terms, with family, history, violence, loss, sexuality, and ultimately, with love". 20230417. Women basketball coaches Fiction. Conversion therapy Fiction. Lesbian people Fiction. Gay men Fiction. Oregon Fiction. Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction.