Cameron and Jamie have a brief, informal relationship that ends at the Miles City Bucking Horse Sale, a two-day traditional summer festival in the town, when it becomes clear to Jamie that Cameron continues to have feelings for Coley. Cameron grows upset, and capitalizing on Cameron’s sexual confusion, Jamie requests that Cameron try dating him. At prom, Jamie confronts Cameron about her crush on another girl.

Although Cameron’s feelings for Coley grow, she harbors no illusions that Coley will reciprocate. Coley represents the ideal all-American girl. Coley persuades Cameron to ask Jamie to prom, and the pair double date with Coley’s steady boyfriend Brett. While at Gates of Praise, a new conservative church that Ruth insists they attend, Cameron meets Coley Taylor, a beautiful girl from a prominent ranching family. Lindsey takes it upon herself to be Cameron’s guide through lesbian culture, mailing Cameron books and films that center on lesbian life. They continue their romantic involvement for the rest of the summer and keep up a letter correspondence afterwards. One night, while the girls explore an abandoned hospital with Jamie and a group of other boys, Cameron and Lindsey sneak off to share their first kiss.

She prompts Cameron to confess her same-sex attraction. In the summer of 1991, Lindsey returns visibly changed, complete with short, bleached hair and piercings. She becomes friendly with Lindsey Lloyd, a fellow swim champion from Seattle who lives with her Montana-based father during the summer. As Cameron gets older, her attraction to girls grows. Margo invites Cameron to dinner and encourages Cameron to contact her if she needs anything.Ĭameron moves into adolescence and befriends a boy, the wisecracking Jamie. Cameron notes and admires Margo’s lack of adherence to gender norms. Irene’s family strikes it rich when they find dinosaur fossils on their ranch property, and Irene attends a fancy East Coast boarding school.Īfter Cameron’s parents’ passing, Margo Keenan, a semi-pro tennis player who grew up with Cameron’s mother and who also survived the Montana-Yellowstone earthquake, pays Cameron a visit. Cameron distances herself from Irene, believing that their kiss somehow caused the car crash. Before long, Cameron’s quirky grandmother and religious aunt Ruth move in to care for her. While at Irene’s house for a sleepover, Cameron learns her parents have died in a car accident. In July of 1989, Cameron and her best friend Irene Slauson kiss for the first time. Before her parents’ death at Quake Lake in the summer of 1989, Cameron Post is just another pre-teen figuring out her identity in the small, rural town of Miles City, Montana.

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