A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage Book

Kephart's prose is so beautifully written I couldn't wait to pick it up every night. A touching story of a mother whose first child is diagnosed with PDD as a toddler. This book is her journey through discovery of who her son is both despite his challenges and in celebration of his differentness.

There is an extraordinary scene towards the end of a book where a woman with tragic facial disfiguration enters the restaurant that she and her son are sitting in. She knows this woman's disability will cause her son to scream and cry so she explains to him what he must do and distracts him from the woman's view. Prose from this page reads, "It is frankly unforgivable that I, who know the brutality of differentness and the loneliness of separateness, could not, did not extend beyond myself."