Tennis Lessons

You know you're strange and wrong. You've known it from the beginning. You wish you could apologize to your mother for not being normal and pretty and uncomplicated, for not being what she deserves.

Acutely observed and bursting with wit, this is a story about a girl becoming a woman and striving to find a place in a world that appears not to have one for her. From disastrous dates to dead pets, from crashed cars to ingrowing toenails, TENNIS LESSONS is an achingly honest portrait of one spirited misfit and her rocky route to something like happiness.

In a voice that is gloriously fresh and unflinchingly compassionate, Susannah Dickey reminds us that none of us are normal – we're all a bit weird and that's just fine.