The Miseducation of Cameron Post
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4.5 • 32 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Now a major motion picture starring Chloë Grace Moretz *Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner*
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'If Holden Caulfield had been a gay girl from Montana, this is the story he might have told-it's funny, heartbreaking, and beautifully rendered' Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of Prep and American Wife
'An important book - one that can change lives' Jacqueline Woodson, award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming
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The night Cameron Post's parents died, her first emotion was relief. Relief they would never know that hours earlier, she'd been kissing a girl.
Now living with her conservative Aunt in small-town Montana, hiding her sexuality and blending in becomes second nature to Cameron until she begins an intense friendship with the beautiful Coley Taylor.
Desperate to 'correct' her niece, Cameron's Aunt takes drastic action.
Now Cameron must battle with the cost of being her true-self even if she's not completely sure who that is.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a stunning and unforgettable literary debut about discovering who you are and finding the courage to live life according to your own rules.
Don't miss this raw and powerful own voices debut, the basis for the award-winning film starring Chloë Grace Moretz.
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Praise for The Miseducation of Cameron Post:
'Danforth's narrative of a bruised young woman finding her feet in a complicated world is a tremendous achievement: strikingly unsentimental, and full of characters who feel entirely rounded and real . . . An inspiring read' Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith
"Rich with detail and emotion, a sophisticated read for teens and adults alike." Kirkus starred review
'The story is riveting, beautiful, and full of the kind of detail that brings to life a place (rural Montana), a time (the early 1990s), and a questioning teenage girl' Publishers Weekly starred review
'LGBTQ cinema is out in force at Sundance Film Festival.' USA Today
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The emotional intensity of teenage life is compounded when coming of age involves coming out. For Cameron Post, the heroine of Emily M. Danforth’s radiant debut, that reckoning happens at the same time as she’s forced to deal with her parents’ deaths in a car crash. She's placed in the care of a devout aunt, who, upon catching Cameron kissing a girl, ships her off to conversion-therapy camp. Set against the rustic American conservatism of ‘90s Montana, Danforth’s beautiful YA novel is achingly poignant—not only for queer and trans youth but for anyone yearning to live their truth.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Danforth's impressive debut, a teenage girl processes her sexual awakening as a lesbian against the backdrop of her parents' sudden death in a car accident. Cam's reckoning with her sexuality develops through a series of vignette-like early chapters that focus on the girls that come and go in Cam's life and there are several of them creating narrative moments that will have teens rereading the sexy bits like an earlier generation did with Judy Blume's Forever. The story is riveting, beautiful, and full of the kind of detail that brings to life a place (rural Montana), a time (the early 1990s), and a questioning teenage girl. Halfway through, the novel makes an abrupt turn when Cam's secret is revealed, and her evangelical Aunt Ruth sends her off to God's Promise, a residential school designed to help teens "break free from... sexual sin and confusion by welcoming Jesus Christ into their lives." Danforth's story gains even more complexity and dimension from this shift, further developing the political, religious, and coming-of-age themes introduced in the first half. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
Great film
Nothing wrong with being gay until you come across the Christian cure. This means feeling the sin. All religions seem to have an inhuman intolerance to being gay. This film covers the split very well. Even the ghastly Christian rock is well done. The message: Avoid God and His supernatural dictatorship and be yourself warts and all. Relevant now particularly with the State of America toady.
Good
Good read, ending was better than the film but still feel it leaves something more to be desired
If you’re gay, read this book
Broke my heart and glued it back together