Boy Erased. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 2016 book
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Boy Erased
Garrard Conley, 2016
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Joel Edgerton, 2018

Jared Eamons is the son of Marshall Eamons, a successful car dealer and Baptist preacher in Arkansas, and Nancy Eamons, a self-styled hairdresser. He begins his first day at the Love In Action gay conversion therapy assessment program in Memphis, Tennessee. Chief therapist Victor Sykes tells the group that their sexuality is a choice influenced by poor parenting.


French Exit. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 2018 book
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French Exit
Patrick deWitt, 2018
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Azazel Jacobs, 2020

Frances Price is a 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite. She plans to die before the money ran out, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.


The Slap. Poster of the 2015 TV series and cover of the 2008 book
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The Slap
Christos Tsiolkas, 2008
TV series vs book
Jon Robin Baitz, Walter F. Parkes, 2015

Hector is a government employee, a husband, a father, and a cherished friend who is about to turn 40. His wife, Aisha, who is smart and attractive, is organizing a lively party for him with his noisy Greek relatives and friends. It appears to be a perfect day, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, that’s not the case.