Most Popular Books by Emily M. Danforth

The acclaimed book behind the 2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning movie "LGBTQ cinema is out in force at Sundance Film Festival," proclaimed USA Today. "The acerbic coming-of-age movie is adapted from Emily M. Danforth''s novel, and stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a lesbian teen who is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after she gets caught having sex with her friend on prom night." The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a stunning and provocative literary debut that was named to numerous best of the year lists. 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 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, and Cam becomes an expert at both. Then Coley Talor 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, 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 quite sure who that is. Don''t miss this raw and powerful own voices debut, the basis for the award-winning film starring Chloë Grace Moretz.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “A delectable brew of gothic horror and Hollywood satire . . . [and] what makes all this so much fun is Danforth’s deliciously ghoulish voice . . . exquisite." —Ron Charles, THE WASHINGTON POST "A multi-faceted novel, equal parts gothic, sharply funny, sapphic romance, historical, and, of course, spooky.” —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Named a Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly • Washington Post • USA Today • Time • O, The Oprah Magazine • Buzzfeed • Harper''s Bazaar • Vulture • Parade • HuffPost • Refinery29 • Popsugar • E! News • Bustle • The Millions • GoodReads • Autostraddle • Lambda Literary • Literary Hub • and more! The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, the Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way. Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer Merritt Emmons publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins. A story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period-inspired illustrations, Plain Bad Heroines is a devilishly haunting, modern masterwork of metafiction that manages to combine the ghostly sensibility of Sarah Waters with the dark imagination of Marisha Pessl and the sharp humor and incisive social commentary of Curtis Sittenfeld into one laugh-out-loud funny, spellbinding, and wonderfully luxuriant read. “Full of Victorian sapphic romance, metafictional horror, biting misandrist humor, Hollywood intrigue, and multiple timeliness—all replete with evocative illustrations that are icing on a deviously delicious cake.” –O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

Quando os pais de Cameron Post morrem em um acidente de carro, a primeira coisa que ela sente, para sua própria surpresa, é alívio. Alívio que eles nunca vão precisar saber que, algumas horas antes, ela estava beijando uma menina. Mas o alívio não dura, e Cam é forçada a morar com sua tia ultraconservadora e sua bem-intencionada mas antiquada avó. Ela sabe que, daqui em diante, tudo será diferente. Sobreviver nessa pequena cidade rural de Montana exige que Cam finja ser igual a todo mundo e evite assuntos indelicados (como diria sua avó), e ela é boa nisso. Até que Coley Taylor chega à cidade. Coley é perfeita, e tem um namorado perfeito para completar. Ela e Cam forjam uma amizade intensa, que parece deixar espaço para algo mais. Mas assim que isso começa a parecer possível, a religiosa tia Ruth decide que é hora de "consertar" sua sobrinha, a mandando para God''s Promise, um acampamento de conversão que deve "curar" sua homossexualidade. Lá, Cam fica frente a frente com o custo de negar quem ela é - mesmo que ela não tenha certeza que sabe realmente quem é. O mau exemplo de Cameron Post é uma estreia literária inesquecível e impressionante sobre descobrir quem você é e ter a coragem de viver de acordo com suas próprias regras.

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 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 Cam becomes an expert at it. Then Coley Talor 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, 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 quite sure who that is.

Cameron Post parece la adolescente perfecta en su último año de instituto. Pero cuando la pillan en el asiento trasero de un coche con otra chica la noche del baile de fin de curso, su familia no duda en mandarla inmediatamente a un centro de terapia de conversión especializado en adolescentes "con problemas de atracción por el mismo sexo". Una vez allí, Cameron se ve sometida a una disciplina extravagante, a dudosos métodos "contra-gay" y a entusiastas canciones de rock cristiano. Sin embargo, el inesperado marco también contiene a una inusual comunidad gay. Cameron entra en contacto con personas como ella por primera vez en su vida y encuentra un lugar entre sus compañeros marginados.

1902, ESCUELA PARA CHICAS BROOKHANTS. Flo y Clara están fascinadas la una por la otra y también comparten su obsesión por una atrevida escritora llamada Mary McLane, autora de unas escandalosas memorias. Para mostrar su devoción por Mary, las chicas crean su propio club privado, la Sociedad de las Heroínas Sencillas y Perversas. Sus encuentros tienen lugar en un campo de manzanos, que será el escenario de su felicidad más salvaje y, finalmente, de sus macabras muertes. Es allí donde aparecen sus cuerpos, víctimas de un enjambre de avispas furiosas, con una copia del libro de Mary abierto junto a ellas. Casi cinco años más tarde, la escuela Brookhants cierra sus puertas definitivamente; pero antes, tres personas más aparecen muertas en inquietantes circunstancias. Más de un siglo después, el ahora abandonado y medio en ruinas edificio de Brookhants vuelve a ser noticia cuando la famosa escritora Merritt Emmons publica una exitosa obra celebrando la historia feminista y queer que rodeó a la «encantada y maldita» institución, que también se adapta a la gran pantalla y se convierte en una controvertida película de terror protagonizada por la it girl y superestrella del cine homosexual, Harper Harper, en el papel de Flo y su antítesis, la actriz de serie B y antigua estrella infantil Audrey Wells, en el papel de Clara. Pero cuando Brookhants abre sus puertas una vez más y las tres modernas heroínas llegan para empezar el rodaje, el pasado y el presente, la ficción y la realidad, se entrelazarán de manera oscura.

The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls--a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit. Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary''s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, the Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever--but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in the most troubling way.