TY - BOOK AU - Self,Jeffery TI - A very, very bad thing SN - 9781338118407 (hbk.) KW - Gay teenagers KW - Teen fiction KW - Homophobia KW - Truthfulness and falsehood KW - Suicide KW - Friendship KW - Parent and child KW - Prejudices KW - LGBTQIA+ KW - Queer theory KW - Gay fiction KW - lcgft 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 -