The movie adaptation of Emily M. Danforth’s 2012 YA novel The Miseducation of Cameron Post has found its lead in Chloe Grace Moretz!
The movie will tell the story of a rural Montana teen in 1993 as she forms an intense new relationship with another girl that leads her ultra-religious aunt to send her for “re-education” at a conversion therapy camp. The novel won the prestigious William C. Morris YA Debut Award and is widely considered a contemporary favorite novel about LGBTQ youth.
The film will also star Sasha Lane, John Gallagher Jr., Forrest Goodluck, and Jennifer Ehle.
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.
Want to snag the book? It’s available now on Amazon.
