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	Liepman Literary Agency Marc Koralnik
Original language
English

THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST

Emily Danforth

Don't miss this raw and powerful debut, the basis for the award-winning film starring Chloë Grace Moretz.

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 tothat 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.

Film News: Chloe Grace Moretz will star in The Miseducation of Cameron Post, based on Emily M. Danforth's 2012 coming-of-age novel about a young girl who is forced into a gay conversion therapy center. Desiree Akhavan, who directed Appropriate Behavior, will direct. The cast also features American Honey breakout star Sasha Lane, John Gallagher Jr. (Short Term 12), Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant), and Jennifer Ehle (A Quiet Passion). Cecilia Frugiuele and Akhavan co-wrote the screenplay.

Winner of the 2012 Montana Book Award
Winner of the 2012 AfterEllen.com Visiblity Award for Best Book
Finalist for the 2013 William C. Morris YA Debut Award
Finalist for the 2013 Lambda Award in LGBT Children's/YA

Kirkus Best Book of 2012
Amazon Best Teen Books 2012
Kirkus Best Teen Books 2012
School Library Journal's Best Books (Fiction) 2012
Booklist Books For Youth Editors' Choice 2012
Boston Globe Best YA Books 2012

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Book Published 2012-02-01 by Harper Collins Publishers

Comments

Danforth's writing style is multilayered in the best way, with a gradual, deliberate accretion of details that creates a resonant whole...The Miseducation of Cameron Post is indeed an important bookespecially for teens growing up today in communities that don't accept them for who they are. But it is also a skillfully and beautifully written story that does what the best books do: It shows us ourselves in the lives of others.

Directed by Desiree Akhavan, Chloe Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane to Star in Gay Conversion Drama 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post' Read more...

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.

For LGBT youth and outsiders everywhere, Cameron's story will take on epic resonance.

This finely crafted, sophisticated coming-of-age debut novel is multilayered, finessing such issues as loss, first love, and friendship. An excellent read for both teens and adults.

Rich with detail and emotion, a sophisticated read for teens and adults alike. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner! Read more...

[An] ambitious literary novel, a multidimensional coming-of-age.

Powerful...Danforth is a talented wordsmith who recounts...experiences not only with impeccable phrasing but emotional and visual clarity, drilling down into individual moments and dwelling there in slow motion to help readers experience Cameron's hopes and fears...Danforth has crafted a story that's likely to be remembered long after readers of any sexual orientation have put it down.