Chronicle Books Set to Release Beth Kephart's ONE THING STOLEN
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 8, 2015, Chronicle Books will release One Thing Stolen, a new young adult novel that explores the thin line between passion and dangerous obsession. Set in Florence, Italy, and on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, the book is the nineteenth by award-winning, multi-genre author, Beth Kephart.
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In its starred review, Booklist wrote, "Fans of Jandy Nelson's dense, unique narratives will lose themselves in Kephart's enigmatic, atmospheric, and beautifully written tale."
School Library Journal noted that "Kephart's artful novel attests to the power of love and beauty to thrive even in the most devastating of circumstances."
Kirkus wrote: "Disturbing, sometimes unsettling and ultimately offering a sliver of hope, this effort rivetingly captures the destructive effects of mental and physical illness on a likable, sweet-natured teen."
Printz nominee A.S. King has said: "One Thing Stolen is a masterwork—a nest of beauty and loss, a flood of passion so sweet one can taste it. This is no ordinary book. It fits into no box It is its own box—its own language."
Reflecting on the genesis of the book for Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beth-kephart/writing-toward-fearefface_b_6678876.html), Kephart said: "In writing the new young adult novel One Thing Stolen (Chronicle Books, April 7, 2015), I chose to spend two years with a fictional character in the early stages of a rare form of frontotemporal dementia--a form that doesn't just result in behavioral and language changes, but also, in the words of a 2008 New York Times article by Sandra Blakeslee, "alter(s) circuits in [patient's] brains, changing the connections between the front and back parts and resulting in a torrent of creativity." I chose, in other words, to dwell with my own greatest fear. The trickery of the mind. The displacement of truth. The reconstitution of character. The disquieting What if?"
Beginning on March 1, Chronicle Books will be sponsoring a 25-book giveaway on behalf of One Thing Stolen, through Goodreads. For a review copy, please contact Lara Starr.
Kephart is a National Book Award finalist and multiple-awards winner. Her previous book, Going Over (Chronicle Books, 2014), was named a 2014 Booklist Editors' Choice, the Gold Medal Winner/Historical Fiction of the Parents' Choice Awards.
To learn more, visit the One Thing Stolen page (http://beth-kephart.blogspot.com/p/one-thing-stolen.html) at www.beth-kephart.blogspot.com
Media Inquiries:
Lara Starr, Chronicle Books, Senior Publicist,
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