num_pages: 336
description: 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 programa dubious unscientific Christian practice meant to change a persons 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 faired 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 whos left behind his loving husband for a temporary teaching job in Portland Oregon. His work has always been boundary-pushing fearless. But the poem hes most wanted to writeabout his dangerous escape from Celebration Campremains 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 ones truthno matter how slippery that can be. Tell the Rest is a powerful novel about coming to termswith family history violence loss sexuality and ultimately with love.
language: English
title: Tell the Rest
publisher: Akashic Books