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Informationen zum Autor Cynthia Kadohata won the National Book Award for The Thing About Luck and the Newbery Medal for Kira-Kira . She's also the author of many more critically acclaimed novels, including Checked , A Million Shades of Gray , A Place to Belong , Weedflower , Cracker! , and Outside Beauty . In addition to rescuing Dobermans, she's also managed her son's hockey team. She lives in California. Visit her online at CynthiaKadohata.com. Klappentext Shelby and her sisters are separated when each girl is sent to live with her respective father while their mother undergoes surgery. After learning the youngest is so devastated she withdraws! Shelby realizes something must be done to reclaim her family. Zusammenfassung "My mother had four daughters by four different men." There's only one way Shelby and her sisters can describe their mother: She's a sexpot. Helen Kimura collects men (and loans! spending money! and gifts of all kinds) from all over the country. Sure! she's not your typical role model! but she's also not just a pretty face and nail polish. She is confident and brave; she lives life on her own terms! and her four daughters simply adore her. These girls have been raised outside the traditional boundaries. They know how to take the back exit. They know how to dodge crazed lovers in highway car chases. They do not! however! know how to function without one another. Then suddenly they must. A late-night phone call unexpectedly shreds the family apart! catapulting the girls across the country to live with their respective fathers. But these strong-willed sisters are! like their mother! determined to live life on their own terms! and what they do to pull their family back together is nothing short of beautiful. At turns wickedly funny and insistently thought-provoking! Outside Beauty showcases Cynthia Kadohata's unerring ability to explore the bonds that bind. ...
