Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Children’s, Teenage & Educational
Weblink
http://beth-kephart.blogspot.ch/

SMALL DAMAGES

Beth Kephart

Juno meets Under the Tuscan Sun in this beautiful novel about teen pregnancy.

It's senior year, and while Kenzie should be looking forward to prom and starting college in the fall, she discovers she's pregnant. Her determination to keep her baby is something her boyfriend and mother do not understand. So she is sent to Spain, where she will live out her pregnancy, and her baby will be adopted by a Spanish couple. No one will ever know. Alone and resentful in a foreign country, Kenzie is at first sullen and difficult. But as she gets to know Estela, the stubborn old cook, and Esteban, the mysterious young man who cares for the horses, she begins to open her eyes, and her heart, to the beauty that is all around her, and inside her. Kenzie realizes she has some serious choices to make--choices about life, love, and home. Lyrically told in a way that makes the heat, the colors, and the smells of Spain feel alive, Small Damages is a feast for the heart and the soul, and a coming-of-age novel not easily forgotten.

Available products
Book Published 2012-07-01 by Philomel Books
Book Published 2012-07-01 by Philomel Books

Comments

[Kephart’s] prose is nearly poetic… it all works to create her own vivid style.

This story is unexpectedly tender and original…and the setting is rich and alive.

Dreamlike’ is one word for ‘Small Damages’…[Kenzie’s] percolating story emerges through Kephart’s lilting prose in the same hazy way you’d meander through the narrow white streets of Seville…The reader is lost and found and lost and found again.

This beautifully written ‘summer of transformation’ story will have readers feeling as torn about Kenzie’s choice as she is.

Kephart is a linguistic Midas —everything she puts to paper is golden, including this gem.

Starred review: Lovely and unusual—at once epic and intimate.

The Los Angeles Times included SMALL DAMAGES in a Summer Reading Guide.

Escape to Spain with Beth Kephart’s Small Damages!

Stunning. Kephart's lyrical prose lingers with you long after the final page. I simply didn't want it to end.

Kephart has created a lyrical, beautiful story about a young woman at a turning point, struggling to reconcile her choices, find her place in the world and discover the true meaning of family.