Book: The Miseducation of Cameron Post

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"Coming out" is not an option for many teenagers because they risk ending up at a boarding school or other kind of program being removed from their familiy and friends while they will forced to participate in therapy in order to give up the choice of gender for a partner they had in mind.

One book covering this topic is The Miseducation of Cameron Post by the young author Emily M. Danforth.

On the webpage of Amazon you can read this description of the book:

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 soon 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 (as her grandmother might say), 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 exactly 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.

Today many teenagers find themselves shipped off to remote living family members. They are the lucky one. The real damage are put upon those who ends up in the hands of so-called professionals. It shouldn't be so living in year 2012, but it is sadly the case.

Source:

• The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Amazon homepage)
• The Best Novel About a “De-Gaying Camp” Ever Written (By Curtis Sittenfeld, The Slate Group, February 8, 2012