TY - BOOK AU - Self, Jeffery, TI - A very, very bad thing SN - 9781338118407 AV - PZ7.1.S4 Ve 2017 U1 - 813.6Fic 23 PY - 2017///. CY - New York, NY : PB - PUSH, KW - Gay teenagers KW - Fiction KW - Homophobia KW - Truthfulness and falsehood KW - Friendship KW - Gays KW - Prejudices KW - Honesty KW - Parent and child KW - Suicide KW - Winston-Salem (N.C.) KW - Bildungsromans KW - lcgft KW - Romance fiction N2 - Marley is comfortable with being gay in Winston-Salem, but he never had any real passions until he met Christopher, son of a bigoted television evangelist; the two become an inseparable couple until Christopher's parents send him to a religious program intended to "cure" him of being gay, and outraged Marley tells a very big lie--and then has to deal with the repercussions ER -