Places in the World

by Janet Kauffman

Book Overview

Set in rural Montana in the early 1990s, emily m. danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a powerful and widely acclaimed YA coming-of-age novel in the tradition of the classic Annie on My Mind. ? Cameron Post feels a mix of guilt and relief when her parents die in a car accident. Their deaths mean they will never learn the truth she eventually comes to-that she's gay. Orphaned, Cameron comes to live with her old-fashioned grandmother and ultraconservative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394529960
• ISBN13: 9780394529967
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Feminist farm stories - finally reissued

Years after first reading this collection the image of a woman baling hay, taking off her shirt and tying it to the tractor as a flag still remains in my mind. These short stories are far more conventional than her novels e.g. Body in Four Parts. Her characters, however, are already strong females - in this case rural females - who love and loose. The plots of the stories are common but the voice of the author, the characters she builds already show the strength apparent in her later works.