The Miseducation of Cameron Post

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The acclaimed book behind the 2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning movie

"LGBTQ cinema is out in force at Sundance Film Festival," proclaimed USA Today. "The acerbic coming-of-age movie is adapted from Emily M. Danforth's novel, and stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a lesbian teen who is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after she gets caught having sex with her friend on prom night."

The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a stunning and provocative literary debut that was named to numerous best of the year lists.

When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.

But that relief doesn’t last, and Cam is forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone, and Cam becomes an expert at both.

Then Coley Talor moves to town. Beautiful, pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship, one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to “fix” her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self—even if she’s not quite sure who that is.

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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4.5
117 reviews
Avery Northern
August 29, 2023
I loved reading this book. Maybe I'm biased because I grew up in small town North Dakota, not far at all from small town Montana, but all the little details of small town Great Plains life combined with accurate depictions of the pseudoscience of conversion therapy made this feel so real to me. But the author didn't get so bogged down in reality that she forgot she was writing fiction. She still managed to keep this an interesting story while getting all those little details (the Schwan man, Perkins, etc) so spot on. She didn't lapse into obvious autobiography despite many of the details coming from her own life. I've reread this book a few times. It's a really good book.
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Francis Underhill
April 22, 2020
I did not want this book to end although the end was just right in its actions and timing in Cameron's life. It's close to perfect in showing us Cameron's thoughts, behaviors and development through her teen years. I, a straight woman going on 80, will definitely read this again, not because it is a gay/lesbian novel, but because it is great novel about the labor of growing up.
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Brianne Kerr
August 26, 2020
I read this in two days after watching the movie. The movie is just Act 3 of the book, and it made sense, but the book explores so many more aspects of Cameron's coming of age. She is so real on the page as you watch her struggle to reconcile her sexuality with the different aspects of her life.
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About the author

emily m. danforth was born and raised in Miles City, Montana. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Montana and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She lives with her wife in Providence, where she teaches creative writing and literature courses at Rhode Island College and is coeditor of The Cupboard (Literary Pamphlet).

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