by Adam Sass (YA Sass)
Surrender Your
Sons is a thriller
for high school readers about a boy, Connor, being kidnapped and taken to a
small island near Puerto Rico. He soon realizes this is a secret conversion
therapy camp. Conversion therapy is a practice that’s currently (2021) banned
for use on minors in almost half of the States and Puerto Rico. It’s legal in
Nebraska. The idea is to force queer kids to become straight and/or cisgender
through psychological and sometimes physical abuse.
Connor connects the camp to a strange note
from a disabled man he took care of and soon finds out the man was once a
camper. Was he injured as part of the process? This story is combination escape
thriller and cold-case mystery. Things get messy in terms of both bloody
violence and, well, people are complicated, including terrible people.
I found it hard to put down.
(If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try The Miseducation of
Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth or The Grace Year by
Kim Liggett.)
( official Surrender Your Sons page
on the official Adam Sass web
site )
Recommended by Garren H.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service
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