A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt

Therefore, Rivka's devout Jewish faith comes as a total shock to the teen. Simone always knew she was different than her adopted family-she is olive-skinned and dark haired while her adopted parents are fair-but she takes deep pride in her family's agnostic beliefs. Praised by a Publishers Weekly reviewer as a 'moving first novel' that 'celebrates family love and promotes tolerance of diverse beliefs,' A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life introduces sixteen-year-old Simone as she endures a grudging meeting with her birth mother, Rivka, that ultimately changes her life in a surprising way. She brings the same hard-core realism to her fiction, penning compelling novels such as A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life and Harmless, which critics have praised for their ability to speak to young readers.

In her writing for young adults, Dana Reinhardt draws on an array of career experiences, among them her time as a waitress, law student, social worker, crisis hotline employee, and documentary film producer. Harmless and A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life were both adapted as audiobooks, Listening Library, 2006. Harmless, Wendy Lamb Books ( New York, NY), 2007. WritingsĪ Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life, Wendy Lamb Books ( New York, NY), 2006. Worked variously as a waitress, fact checker for a film magazine, reader for a publishing company, and associate producer for Frontline. Born March 11, 1971, in Los Angeles, CA married Daniel Sokatch children: Noa, Zoe (daughters).

A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt