num_pages: 256
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage
titlecomplete: A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage
genres: Parenting, Autobiography, Memoir, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Biography Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 289
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Harper Perennial