Pulled between her old life in Brooklyn and a new one 3,000 miles away, our heroine is faced with a world where the usual rules no longer apply but eventually discovers a strength and capacity for compassion and survival that she never knew she possessed. Over the winter and spring that follow, Wendy moves between the alternately painful and reassuring memories of her mother and the revelations that come with growing to know her real father for the first time. He takes her back with him to California, where she reinvents her life. Through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Wendy, we gain entrance to the world rarely shown by those who documented the events of that one terrible day: a family's slow and terrible realization that Wendy's mother has died, and their struggle to go on with their lives.Ībsent for years, Wendy's real father shows up without warning. She went through her new school clothes in her head, thinking up combinations. a newsman was talking about the elections for mayor of new York City.
In ten minutes, Wendy would have to get in the shower.
An hour later comes the news: A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center-her mother's office building. The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard Chapter One Quarter past six. Wendy is heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California. It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn-a perfect September day.
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