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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Emily M. Danforth
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Description for The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Hardcover. In the early 1990s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: YFB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 148 x 218 x 40. Weight in Grams: 546.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062020567
SKU
V9780062020567
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About Emily M. Danforth
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). ... Read more
Reviews for The Miseducation of Cameron Post
"Rich with detail and emotion, a sophisticated read for teens and adults alike."
Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[An] ambitious literary novel, a multidimensional coming-of-age."
Booklist (starred review) "The story is riveting, beautiful, and full of the kind of detail that brings to life a place (rural Montana), a time (the early 1990s), and a questioning teenage girl."
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Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[An] ambitious literary novel, a multidimensional coming-of-age."
Booklist (starred review) "The story is riveting, beautiful, and full of the kind of detail that brings to life a place (rural Montana), a time (the early 1990s), and a questioning teenage girl."
... Read more