A teenager struggles through physical loss to the start of acceptance
in an absorbing, artful novel at once honest and insightful, wrenching
and redemptive.
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**On a sunny day in June, at the beach with her mom and brother,
fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And then everything --
absolutely everything -- changed. Now she's counting down the days until
she returns to school with her fake arm, where she knows kids will
whisper, That's her -- that's Shark Girl, as she passes. In the meantime
there are only questions: Why did this happen? Why her? What about her
art? What about her life? In this striking first novel, Kelly Bingham
uses poems, letters, telephone conversations, and newspaper clippings to
look unflinchingly at what it's like to lose part of yourself -- and to
summon the courage it takes to find yourself again.