Ebook {Epub PDF} A Very Very Bad Thing by Jeffery Self

Marley is comfortable with being gay in Winston-Salem, but he never had any real passions until he met Christopher, son of a bigoted television evangelist; the two become an inseparable couple until Christopher's parents send him to a religious program intended to "cure" him of being gay, and outraged Marley tells a very big lie--and then has to deal with the repercussions. “But the only thing that we should really be worried about is making our lives into the lives we want them to be. Maybe things don't get better until we make them better.” ― Jeffery Self, A Very, Very Bad ThingAuthor: Jeffery Self.  · Jeffery Self’s novel, A Very, Very Bad Thing, focuses on teens being raised in a time when American LGBTQ youth culture is assured that, at some point, “it gets better.” Mr. Self’s characters challenge this movement/notion. When does it get better? .

In A Very, Very Bad Thing, Jeffery Self unforgettably shows how love can make us do all the wrong things for all the right reasons-especially if we see them as the only way to make love survive. April $ (AUD) Available Stock: 0 Order this Item. Add to Wishlist. Very, Very Bad Thing by Jeffery Self, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Jeffery Self's. A Very, Very Bad Thing. Explores a Gay Boy's Head-Reeling, First Love. Read an excerpt from the Search Party actor's YA novel about exciting, first, and forbidden love. I am not a.

In A Very, Very Bad Thing, Jeffery Self unforgettably shows how love can make us do all the wrong things for all the right reasons-especially if we see them as the only way to make love survive. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY . Then Christopher's parents send him to a Pray Away the Gay program, which leads to even worse things. Hurt and outraged, Marley tells a very big lie - and then has to navigate its repercussions. A Very, Very Bad Thing by Jeffery Self. Marley is comfortable with being gay in Winston-Salem, but he never had any real passions until he met Christopher, son of a bigoted television evangelist; the two become an inseparable couple until Christopher's parents send him to a religious program intended to "cure" him of being gay, and outraged Marley tells a very big lie--and then has to deal with the repercussions.