The future should be right within reach, but for Kenzie the future has suddenly been rearranged. Its senior year, and while she should be looking forward to prom and starting college in the fall, she discovers she's pregnant. Her mother sends her to Spain, where she will live out her pregnancy, and her child will be adopted by a Spanish couple. No one will ever know.
 
Alone in a foreign country, Kenzie is at first resentful. But as she gets to know the rough land and the mysterious people in it she begins to open her eyes, and her heart, to the beauty that is around her, and inside her. Kenzie realizes she has some serious choices to make choices about life, love, and home. Lyrically told in a way that makes the He, the colors, and the smells of Spain feel alive, small damages is a feast for the heart and the soul, and a novel not easily forgotten.