Tennis Lessons

Tennis Lessons by Dickey, Susannah. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780857526861.

You know youre strange and wrong. Youve known it from the beginning. This is the voice that rings in your ears. That worries you never say the right thing and you’re probably a disappointment to your parents. That you’re a far cry from pretty – and your thoughts are ugly too. It says no one will ever like you just as you are. But you know what it is to laugh with your best friend until your stomach hurts, to feel the first delicious tingles of attraction, to take exquisite pleasure in the goriness of your ingrowing toenail. There is a place for you out there. You just need to find it. TENNIS LESSONS is the unflinchingly honest story of one misfit and her uncertain journey to something like happiness. Stopping by each year along the way, she navigates disastrous dates, dead pets, crashed cars, best friends and lost loves. Susannah Dickey reminds us that were all a bit weird. And thats just fine.