Joanna Gordon has been living life in Atlanta as an out and proud lesbian for most of her teenage life but that all changes when her pastor father marries a woman from a traditional Baptist family who moves the whole family to a small town in Southern Georgia. Her father asks if she doesn’t mind laying low (ie going back into the closet) for the year in exchange for a youth radio program and permission to go on a wild summer trip. While she struggles […]
Georgia Peaches and a lot of elephant facts
This was such a cute book, and full of great messages — love yourself, be yourself, God loves everyone, it’s okay to be gay, accept people for who they are, etc — that this straight married atheist absolutely loved. Teenager Jo Gordon has been out and proud for years, and her radio evangelist father has always supported her. Unfortunately, the summer before her senior year, he remarries for the third time (to a much younger woman), moves Jo from fairly accepting Atlanta, GA to the much more […]