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. At the camp, Cameron comes face to face with the cost of denying her true identity. When she’s eventually outed, her aunt sends her to God’s Promise, a religious conversion camp that is supposed to “cure” her homosexuality. There she falls in love with her best friend, a beautiful cowgirl. Orphaned, Cameron comes to live with her old-fashioned grandmother and ultraconservative aunt Ruth. Their deaths mean they will never learn the truth she eventually comes to - that she's gay. 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.Ĭameron Post feels a mix of guilt and relief when her parents die in a car accident. Set in rural Montana in the early 1990s, Emily M.
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