Cam is 12 when readers first meet her, but several years pass over the course of the book's nearly 500 pages. 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. There are no shortcuts to Cameron's story, and that's the reason it works.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. Danforth makes sure that the knot of emotions buried deep in Cameron isn't unraveled quickly or easily. Cameron's guilt over the kiss - and her attraction to girls - becomes tangled with her grief in complicated ways. When she learns that she has been orphaned, her first feeling is relief: Her parents won't ever learn that only the day before, she had been kissing her best friend, Irene. Cameron is 12 years old, and her parents have just died in a car accident. Written in the first person from Cameron's perspective as she looks back on her so-called "miseducation," the novel opens in 1989.
Danforth's debut, is a coming-out novel, but while it follows the formula's general trajectory, it also transcends it and demonstrates why these stories still need to be told. The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. It can still work because it is still true. But sometimes, a book appears that shows why the formula endures. As a formula, especially within young adult fiction, the story isn't new. In the fallout, things usually get a lot worse before they get better. Many of them follow a formula: character struggles with homosexual desire in a homophobic world character falls in tormented, transformative love character is unceremoniously outed. I know it's going to explode, but I'm not sure when. Reading a coming-out novel, for me, can feel like approaching a lit fuse.
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