The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Unabridged)
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3.9 • 16 Ratings
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
Set in rural Montana in the early 1990s, Emily M. Danforth’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a powerful and widely acclaimed YA coming-of-age novel in the tradition of the classic Annie on My Mind.
Cameron Post feels a mix of guilt and relief when her parents die in a car accident. Their deaths mean they will never learn the truth she eventually comes to - that she's gay. Orphaned, Cameron comes to live with her old-fashioned grandmother and ultraconservative aunt Ruth. There she falls in love with her best friend, a beautiful cowgirl. When she’s eventually outed, her aunt sends her to God’s Promise, a religious conversion camp that is supposed to “cure” her homosexuality. At the camp, Cameron comes face to face with the cost of denying her true identity.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a stunning and provocative literary debut that was a finalist for the YALSA Morris Award and was named to numerous “best” lists.
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’ death 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 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.
Customer Reviews
I loved it
In some of these reviews, I see some people found it boring and long, but I couldn’t feel any more different. I was loosing track of time reading this, which is something I usually don’t do considering my reading is typically unwillingly doing my high school reading homework. I just loved it. And I won’t go into detail about the specifics and what not, but I just didn’t want to put the book down. I found Cameron very relatable, the only thing I wish was different about the book is I wish we got to see what cam and her friends did after escaping.