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Author Cooper, Alex, 1994- author

Title Saving Alex : when I was fifteen I told my Mormon parents I was gay, and that's when my nightmare began / Alex Cooper and Joanna Brooks
Edition First edition
Published New York, NY : HarperOne, 2016
©2016

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Description 248 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Prologue : dead end -- Families are forever -- Cracks in the plan -- Just this one girl -- Opening up -- "Get out. Just go!" -- Welcome to Utah -- "I'm going to be here a long time" -- "You think you are gay, but that's not how God made you." -- Free to choose -- The burden of homosexuality -- Invisible -- Giving in -- Going back to school -- Can't take another day -- Safe -- Going home -- Standing strong -- Moving on -- Sharing my story
Summary A memoir from Alex Cooper, who knew "she was holding a secret that could shatter her family, her church community, and her life. Yet when this secret couldn't be hidden any longer, she told her parents that she was gay, and the nightmare began. She was driven from her home in Southern California to Utah, where, against her will, her parents handed her over to fellow Mormons who promised to save Alex from her homosexuality"--Dust jacket flap
Bibliography Includes bibliographical referenes (page 248)
Subject Cooper, Alex, 1994-
Lesbian teenagers -- United States -- Biography.
Mormon gays -- United States -- Biography.
Sexual reorientation programs -- Utah.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Author Brooks, Joanna, 1971- author
LC no. 2015031520
ISBN 0062374605
0062467395
9780062374608 (hardback)
9780062467393 (paperback)
Other Titles When I was fifteen I told my Mormon parents I was gay, and that's when my nightmare began