The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Emily M. Danforth

Feb 2012 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

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.

The book was amazing and kept me fully entertained the entire time. Just sad because the ending left me wondering too much. I suppose that's what makes a great story... the ablity to decide how the characters end up in life.

I wish this story continued for the same amount of pages, but overall it was great read. I loved to took a peek of small town life in 90th US

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).