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  • Published: 31 August 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141389172
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

The Miseducation of Cameron Post




A story of love, desire, pain, loss - and, above all, of survival with real appeal for fans of Jennifer Niven, John Green, Nicola Yoon and Becky Albertelli.

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 Taylor 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, ultrareligious 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.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a stunning and unforgettable literary debut about discovering who you are and finding the courage to live life according to your own rules.

  • Published: 31 August 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141389172
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

About the author

Emily Danforth

Emily was born and raised in Miles City, Montana, a town best known for its Bucking Horse Sale-which was once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for hosting the most intoxicated people, per capita, of any US event. She obsessively collects erasers, large-letter linen postcards from the 1940s, snow-globes, and neologisms. (She has an iced-coffee addiction, too.)

Emily has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Montana and a Ph.D in English-Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her short fiction has won the International Queer Writing Award.

She now teaches creative writing and literature courses at Rhode Island College in Providence.

Praise for The Miseducation of Cameron Post

A beautiful read for a long summer holiday, and a much needed portrayal of lives so seldom seen in YA

Shiftworker, Shift

Review of the film: A lot of times when a movie is called "important" it's hiding the fact that it is boring or dated or loaded with fake drama. Not here. The Miseducation of Cameron Post will be a panacea for gay kids for years to come, so for that our prayers have been answered.

Jordan Hoffman, Guardian