"My mother had four daughters by four different men." This is a line I had repeated many times in my life ...I loved my sisters more than I loved anyone, maybe even more than my mother.

They were not just sisters to me, they were extensions of myself.

When a late-night car crash shatters everything, Shelby's family is scattered, and each sister is sent to live with her respective father.

As the girls try to adjust to life without each other, the youngest, Maddie, starts to withdraw from her sisters, and even from herself.

Shelby knows she must find a way to reunite her family - but how?

Wickedly funny and insistently thought-provoking, Outside Beauty showcases Cynthia Kadohata's unerring ability to explore the bonds that bind.