Surrender your sons adam sass5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() This is a fast-paced book with a compelling protagonist that isn’t an easy read, but is a story we don’t often see represented, especially in YA literature. The teens start to formulate a plan to save themselves after the adults in their lives have betrayed and failed them. Once at the “camp,” Conor quickly begins to piece together what has happened in collaboration with other teens who have been sent away from their own families. Connor, along with other teens, are transported to a conversion therapy camp in Costa Rica.Īs far-fetched as this might sound to some readers, conversion therapy and “therapeutic” boarding schools and bootcamps are both in the United States and abroad (where they are often even less regulated) are a common practice for controlling teens. First she takes his phone - cutting him off from contact with his boyfriend - and then she has him kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night. ![]() ![]() After his boyfriend convinces him coming out to his mother will be safe, Connor’s mom’s reaction is anything but accepting. Adam Sass’ powerful new novel “Surrender Your Sons” centers the damaging practice of conversion therapy through the story of Conor, a gay teenager in Illinois. ![]()
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