Surrender Your Sons

By Adam Sass,

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Connor Majorā€™s summer break is turning into a nightmare.

His SAT scores bombed, the old man he delivers meals to died, and when he came out to his religious zealot mother, she had him kidnapped and shipped off to a secluded island. His final destination: Nightlight Ministries, a conversion therapyā€¦

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2 authors picked Surrender Your Sons as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Need a book that will give you all the feels, only to wring you out, then immerse you in that bath of hopeful salty tears once more? Queer teen Connor Majorā€™s life is blown apart when his mother sends him to a remote conversion camp. Now, he and the other LGBTQ+ ā€˜guestsā€™ at ā€˜Nightlightā€™ band together to expose the campā€™s terrible truths and take it down. Trauma, despair, resilience, joy, and hope make this a riveting and memorable YA adventure thriller. This book made me cry so ugly that my iPhone wouldnā€™t recognise my face to tell people about itā€¦

This YA thriller pivots on a deep fear I think many of us have: what if I come out and it all goes wrong? In Surrender Your Sons, Sass explores the very worst outcome: being taken to a conversion camp. The characters in this book are messy, sharp, fracturedā€¦ and their desperation to survive and be true to themselves is deeply human.

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