![]() ![]() Here, where piety can be a mask for cruelty and the greatest crimes go unpunished, Taylor will learn more than he ever dreamed about love, courage, rebellion, and betrayal-but the most surprising lessons will be the truths he uncovers about himself. gorgeous, secretive Sean, who returns to Straight to God each year to avoid doing prison time for drugs. There's Charles, Taylor's clean-cut roommate, desperate to leave his past behind.Nate Devlin, a handsome, inscrutable older boy who's alternately arrogant and kind. ![]() Every movement is monitored, privacy is impossible, and no one-from staff to residents-is quite who they first appear to be. At Straight to God, such thoughts-along with all other reminders of Taylor's former "sinful" life-are forbidden. Not that Taylor has a problem with being gay, or with reconciling his love for God with his love for his boyfriend Will. ![]() He wouldn't have been shipped off to Straight to God, an institution devoted to "deprogramming" troubled teenagers and ridding them of their vices-whether it's drugs, violence, or in Taylor's case, other boys. If only Taylor Adams had kept on lying to his parents, none of this would have happened. And I think the challenge is to get everyone else to see that. I know God doesn't make mistakes, and if I'm gay it's because that's what he wanted. ![]()
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