![]() ![]() “It was guys and girls who kissed in our grade, on TV, in the movies, in the world. “No one had ever told me, specifically, not to kiss a girl before, nobody had to,” Cameron writes in a novel penned from her perspective. At least that’s the story detailed in Emily Danforth’s young adult debut, “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” a book that reads like a literary response to the Katy Perry hit “I Kissed a Girl” if it took place under a big Montana sky.Ĭameron Post is just 12 when she kisses her best girl friend on a dare - ostensibly as practice for future liaisons with boys. ![]() ![]() There’s something about the open spaces of the Great Plains that make the exploration of nascent homosexuality even more alienating and risky than the same experience in a big city or suburb. Balzer & Bray: 480 pp.: $17.99, for readers age 14 and up ![]()
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