num_pages: 240
description: Simone’s starting her junior year in high school. Her mom’s a lawyer for the ACLU, her dad’s a political cartoonist, so she’s grown up standing outside the organic food coop asking people to sign petitions for worthy causes. She’s got a terrific younger brother and amazing friends. And she’s got a secret crush on a really smart and funny guy–who spends all of his time with another girl.Then her birth mother contacts her. Simone’s always known she was adopted, but she never wanted to know anything about it. She’s happy with her family just as it is, thank you.She learns who her birth mother was–a 16-year-old girl named Rivka. Who is Rivka? Why has she contacted Simone? Why now? The answers lead Simone to deeper feelings of anguish and love than she has ever known, and to question everything she once took for granted about faith, life, the afterlife, and what it means to be a daughter.
language: English
title: A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
titlecomplete: A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
genres: Religion, Teen, Coming Of Age, Young Adult, Family, Audiobook, Contemporary, Fiction, Adoption, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 1690
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Peggy Miller Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Gateway Readers Award
publisher: Wendy Lamb Books