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![]() ![]() ![]() Her struggles with her promises and telling the truth mix well with what she is trying to preach to everyone else. She even blends into the group of popular and religious girls of the school. Joanna, who prefers her Italian last name over Gordon, has agreed to go back in the closet in this new town with two goals in mind: a road trip and a chance at helping others in the way she has always wanted to. ![]() Joanna Gordon and Mary Carlson are the primary characters because of the developing romance. ![]() I haven’t seen much of it in my limited experience with LGBTQ literature. I like that religion is incorporated in a way to teach and to show love toward your fellow person. I found this book at a book sale last month, and I was happy to have enjoyed it so much. Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit, by Jaye Robin Brown, shows characters openly being themselves and ties faith into loving everyone. She doesn’t want to break the promise to her dad, even if Mary might return her feelings. After she reluctantly agrees, she falls for Mary Carlson, the sister of her new friend. He asks her to do the impossible: to lie low for her senior year. All of that changes when he remarries and they move to conservative Rome, Georgia. Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, and her radio evangelist father has been supportive. ![]()
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