A teen grapples with faith, sexuality, and family myth on a road trip to a Bible theme park after a childhood near-death experience.
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A teen grapples with faith, sexuality, and family myth on a road trip to a Bible theme park after a childhood near-death experience.
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A Stonewall Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor Title Eric Schlich's Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife is an accessible and big-hearted novel that explores belief and forgiveness as a boy grapples with his faith and sexuality on a rollicking family road trip to Bible World. When Eli Harpo was four, he underwent emergency open-heart surgery, flatlined on the operating table, and for a brief time, went to heaven and met Jesus. Or at least that's what his father, a loving but devout Baptis...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Recurring sex dreams about Jesus; teen sexual awakening, non-graphic
Violence & gore
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Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Gay teen protagonist; sexuality and identity are central story focus
Religious content
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Baptist ministry, heaven NDE, evangelism, Bible park, televangelism central
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Themes of monetized faith, religious conservatism, and queer identity
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Religious shame/trauma; mother's terminal cancer; body insecurity
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