This morning on CBS Sunday Morning, the cover story was a piece about gay conversion therapy. Though the introduction by Jane Pauley made it sound like this issue was something with two clear sides, the story mainly focused on the pain this practice has caused. The pain felt by those forced to undergo it, the pain felt by parents who thought they were saving their children’s souls by sending their sons and daughters to these programs, and the pain felt by certain religious figures who […]
I am fearing because I am seeing that the only way not to be fighting is to die. I am not wanting to die.
This is small book told by a small person and involving a small world. There’s a kind of claustrophobic feel and tone to this novel and that is both terrifying and horrifying, but it’s awful oddly reassuring both for us as readers and for the narrator. I bought this novel when it first came out, and skipped the movie because I never ended up reading it. Now, the author has a new book that’s been recently published and well I figured I would want to […]