The story opens just after Cameron's first kiss with a girl and just before the life-changing news that Cameron's parents have died in a car accident. - Betty S.Set in rural Montana in the early 1990s, this lesbian coming-of-age story runs the gamut from heart-rending to triumphant, epic to mundane. An excellent read for both teens and adults. This finely crafted, sophisticated coming-of-age debut novel is multilayered, finessing such issues as loss, first love, and friendship. It is here that Cam meets gay teens like herself, and she begins to deal with the guilt and trauma of her adolescence, not through the pious teachings of the camp but through the love of her friends. When they eventually get caught, Coley tells all, blaming everything on Cam, and Aunt Ruth sends her niece off to God’s Promise, a conversion therapy school and camp. Shortly after the funeral, her conservative aunt moves to Miles City, MT, to help Cam’s grandmother with the caregiving, but all the churchgoing and discipline they can marshal throughout Cam’s teen years can’t prevent her from exploring her sexuality further, finally falling for Coley Taylor, a “straight” girl who wants to experiment. When 12-year-old Cam learns that her parents have died in a car accident, her first reaction is relief that they will never know that just hours before she was kissing her best friend, Irene. The Miseducation Of Cameron Post is published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Yup: it's coming of age, it's coming of GAYge, it's a Bildungsroman, a novel of development, it's all of these things, none of these things, and perhaps this listing is growing tedious. The way a mountain-toppling earthquake that happened some thirty years before keeps aftershocking our hero: Cameron Post. The compulsive renting and watching of 99 cent videos. A Victorian dollhouse with all kinds of weird shit glued to it. Girls kissing girls in barns, in twisty slides on playgrounds, in abandoned hospitals. Keeping O'Connor's words in mind, here are some notes on the novel's "aboutness":ĭead parents. When anyone asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell him to read the story." You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. In her useful (and wholly quotable) book on craft, Mystery & Manners, Flannery O'Connor wrote: "A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word of the story to say what the meaning is.
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