“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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