Rating: 
Summary: A SLANT OF SUN is a National Book Award nonfiction finalist!
Review: "This moving, suspenseful, brave, and daring book belongs with the classics. To read it is to experience firsthand the redemptive power of love."-Kim Chernin"At its heart...a display of the depth of mother love...."-Redbook "[B]reathtaking....uncommonly beautiful prose...."-Booklist "Wow. What great heart and bravery in this beautiful book."-Anne Lamott "[S]trikingly simple yet profound....Kephart's prose is luminous, her story so moving that I savored it, read and re-read it within days."-The Baltimore Sun "[U]ltimately so moving and hope-affirming (without a moment of sappy 'uplift') that I was overwhelmed by it....Kephart redeems all of us from reading any diagnosis as certain doom."-Rosellen Brown "....a luminous gift...."-Jayne Anne Phillips "What a beautifully written book....[depicting] the painstaking love and understanding that every human being requires...."-The Oregonian
Rating: 
Summary: one child's dignity
Review: A Slant of Sun is a beautiful book written about a boy whose dignity and integrity teach his mother many things. This book is not an appropriate selection for parents who are seeking a plan of action or a series of steps to take toward a child's wholeness; the author makes it clear, repeatedly, that what worked well for her child is not necessarily a prescription for all children. Instead, A Slant of Sun is a book for those who believe it is important to step back, to spend time with their children, and to learn the lessons that they teach. It is a book for those who have been profoundly moved by their own child's first words, by unexpected gestures of love.
Rating:
Summary: I loved this book.
Review: A Slant of Sun is a beautifully written book, full of hope and inspiration. This something to read, as much because you don't have a child with PDD, as because you do.
Rating:
Summary: A Slant of Sun
Review: A Slant of Sun, is the beautifully written story of one boy's triumph over a diagnosis of "pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified". Authored by his mother, Beth Kephart, we are taken on a journey through the heartaches, frustrations and joys of their relationship to each other and to the world. Ms. Kephart eloquently brings to our awareness the fact that each child is unique and that each parent has the opportunity to alter the course of a life by his or her willingness to challenge conventional thinking. Through the author's determination and love for her son and by Jeremy's strength, she guides and supports him in his courageous struggle. Ms. Kephart has the unique ability to bare her soul while maintaining the book's focus on her son and his day-by-day victories. For any one who has ever loved a child, A Slant of Sun promises to engross you with its depth, honesty and bravery.
Rating:
Summary: A Slant of Sun
Review: A Slant of Sun, is the beautifully written story of one boy's triumph over a diagnosis of "pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified". Authored by his mother, Beth Kephart, we are taken on a journey through the heartaches, frustrations and joys of their relationship to each other and to the world. Ms. Kephart eloquently brings to our awareness the fact that each child is unique and that each parent has the opportunity to alter the course of a life by his or her willingness to challenge conventional thinking. Through the author's determination and love for her son and by Jeremy's strength, she guides and supports him in his courageous struggle. Ms. Kephart has the unique ability to bare her soul while maintaining the book's focus on her son and his day-by-day victories. For any one who has ever loved a child, A Slant of Sun promises to engross you with its depth, honesty and bravery.
Rating:
Summary: a poetic account of a generous mother
Review: A Slant of Sun, which was nominated for a National Book Award, is one of the most sincere books I have ever read. It is not written like a "book," I found it to read fluidly like an epic poem. Beth Kephart's use of metaphors and images are what kept me intrigued. It was my honor to read this book and I reccommend it to anyone who knows what is is like to struggle or anyone who loves hearing about hope. Thank you Beth Kephart for letting us inside your family to see the miracle you call Jeremy.
Rating:
Summary: More than a vigilant parent's story, brilliantly written!
Review: A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage By Beth Kephart, May 1998, W.W. Norton & Company; 249pp As each of us have become parents, we have watched in awe the transformation of a swollen embodiment of hope into a human being who personifies our genetic material. Eternally compelling, we behold, we examine, we are astonished. For most parents, the gift of watching a child grow is truly a profound experience; but nothing is more heart wrenching than to watch a child grow with difficulty. Beth Kephart takes us into that vigilant world of a parent with a child who diverges from the path of normal development in her outstanding book, A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage. Yet, this particular book is so much more than a story about loving parents who diligently and successfully maneuver their gifted, mildly autistic child through the maze of denial, disillusionment, doctors and diagnoses. The fact is, this book is a must read because of Kephart's incredible style of writing words that fit together like a correctly completed rubric's cube. Kephart's ability to detail the ordinary moments of life transform them into the extraordinary. Her lyrical prose is sumptuous. Her vivid word combinations always satisfy. I recommend that you pick up a copy of Beth Kephart's book, find a warm slant of sun to read by, and enjoy!
Rating:
Summary: More than a vigilant parent's story, brilliantly written!
Review: A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage By Beth Kephart, May 1998, W.W. Norton & Company; 249pp As each of us have become parents, we have watched in awe the transformation of a swollen embodiment of hope into a human being who personifies our genetic material. Eternally compelling, we behold, we examine, we are astonished. For most parents, the gift of watching a child grow is truly a profound experience; but nothing is more heart wrenching than to watch a child grow with difficulty. Beth Kephart takes us into that vigilant world of a parent with a child who diverges from the path of normal development in her outstanding book, A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage. Yet, this particular book is so much more than a story about loving parents who diligently and successfully maneuver their gifted, mildly autistic child through the maze of denial, disillusionment, doctors and diagnoses. The fact is, this book is a must read because of Kephart's incredible style of writing words that fit together like a correctly completed rubric's cube. Kephart's ability to detail the ordinary moments of life transform them into the extraordinary. Her lyrical prose is sumptuous. Her vivid word combinations always satisfy. I recommend that you pick up a copy of Beth Kephart's book, find a warm slant of sun to read by, and enjoy!
Rating:
Summary: A Slant of Sun
Review: Anyone that has a child with a developmental dissability or dely should read this book. True to life, and full of touching moments, A Slant of Sun has definetily made us feel that we are not alone. Superbly written, Kephart is an excellent story teller.
Rating:
Summary: The book transcends its own sentimentality
Review: Anyone who's dealt with the priesthood of child-development experts and suspected that their approach is impressionistic at best will know that there's more to this book than the apparent bittersweet sentimentality. Such bathetic sentimentality lacquers the book in the many scenes in which a lonely Jeremy tries to navigate a strange world: but it's only lacquer, and beneath it is a hard, penetrating probing of the relationship of the parent to the child, and the spirit to a sometimes-pharasaical consensus called "normal." Parents with PDD children like Jeremy will nod on every page: parents with "normal" children should be challenged to reassess their own assumptions about fitting children to the world.
| 
