I Will Survive You: Another Look at Conversion Camps from Hell, with Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Content Warnings for this novel include abuse via religion, homophobia, transphobia, general abuse of queer kids, murder, gore These are not the eggs you are looking for. The year is 1995. OJ Simpson has been set free. “Gangsta’s Paradise” by Coolio and TLC’s “Waterfalls” have taken over the music charts. Bill Clinton is president. Seinfeld is one of the most popular television shows. But, underneath all of this, the queer community still suffers from horrible discrimination. Conversion camps still exist, operating with impunity and terrifying teens and children into burying their true selves as deep as possible. Most of these camps use terror tactics, praying, and bullying… but none of them have found the solution that Camp Resolution has. A group of seven unrelated teenagers are sent there. Their parents want them to change, but they have no idea what they are really sending their kids into. Even as horrible as the circumstances are, I marveled at the diverse cast of characters and
