Full name: A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage

Author: Beth Kephart Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780688172282 9780393340983 0688172288 0393340988

Named a Best Book of the Year by Salon magazine and The Philadelphia Inquirer, A Slant of Sun was praised for its incandescent prose about the experience of loving a child who brings tremendous frustration and incalculable rewards and for its extraordinary resonance. Like Operating Instructions and The Liars' Club, A Slant of Sun is a contemporary classic. Nearly one in five children grow up facing a developmental or behavioral challenge, and like them, Beth Kephart's son, Jeremy, showed early signs of being different: language eluded him, he preferred playing alone to an afternoon on the jungle gym. Doctors diagnosed Jeremy with a mild form of autism called Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. A Slant of Sun is a passionate memoir about how Kephart, guided by the twin tools of intuition and imagination, helped lead her son toward wholeness. Pulsing with the questions, "Is normal possible? Definable?" A Slant of Sun speaks to everyone not just parents of the redemptive power of love. Similar books: Raising Blaze by Debra Ginsberg Boy Alone by Karl Taro Greenfeld Nobody Nowhere by Donna Williams Raising Cubby by John Elder Robison Somebody Somewhere by Donna Williams Like Colour to the Blind by Donna Williams The Spark by Kristine Barnett Mother Warriors by Jenny McCarthy I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja Spiegelman Life, Animated by Ron Suskind Atypical by Jesse A. Saperstein Emergence: Labeled Autistic by Temple Grandin Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls