See full review on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution website:

Georgia Writers Association director Garrard Conley is the son of a Baptist preacher whose 2016 memoir “Boy Erased” chronicles his parents’ attempt to change his sexual orientation through conversion therapy. It was made into a 2018 movie starring Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe.

Diving into a different aspect of queer Christian suppression, Conley’s debut novel, “All the World Beside,” is an evocative and mystical work of historical fiction that animates a love affair between two men in 18th-century Puritan New England...

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