That’s pretty much adulthood in a nutshell. This was especially true when she realizes that often, the people who are supposedly in charge really don’t have a clue about what they’re doing and are just winging it as they go along. So though she did have somewhat of a strong ego and independent streak, it was these qualities which allowed her to reject the judgment of those authority figures in her life and maintain her self-esteem through it all.
Like Holden, Cameron was so realistically portrayed and she felt so real to me that she almost jumped off the page as I read about her adventures…and misadventures. One author’s blurb on the back of the book said “If Holden Caulfield had been a gay girl from Montana, this is the story he might have told” - and I definitely have to agree, given that I just read Catcher in the Rye and Holden is still fresh in my mind. I loved the character of Cameron as she was quite the firecracker. She sends to her God’s Promise church camp, one of those “pray away the gay” compounds.Īnd our story gets quite interesting from there. So I thought this was going to be sort of a coming-of-age tale of a young lesbian girl figuring out who she is.īut then the story took quite a surprising and disturbing turn - Cameron is outed to her Auth Ruth, and as a result, things don’t end up too well for our heroine, as Aunt Ruth takes drastic action, intent on “fixing” her niece. As Cameron steps into her teenage years, she comes to accept that she is a lesbian and makes another gay friend (ahem…a friend with benefits), Lindsey who teaches her the “gay” ropes and who lovingly refers to Cam as a baby dyke, which always gave me a chuckle So Cam is then sent off to live with her grandmother and her ultra-conservative and ultra-religious Aunt Ruth in Miles City, Montana.
So she ending up linking these two events in her mind creating some major guilt and in her preadolescent mind, wonders whether the death of her parents just might be God’s way of punishing her for her forbidden kiss.Īnd all this takes place right off the bat in the story. As it turns out, Cameron, who was 12 years old at the time, had been kissing a girl - her friend Irene- hours before her parent’s death. This story takes place in the early 1990’s follows a young lesbian teen named Cameron Post whose parents are suddenly killed in a car crash. The Miseducation of Cameron Post was on quite a few banned books list so it immediately attracted my attention (I love me some banned books!).
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