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.
Balzer & Bray/harperteen The miseducation of cameron post, hardcover/emily m. danforth
