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It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn--a perfect September day. 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. An hour later comes the news: A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center--her mother's office building. 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. Absent for years, Wendy's real father shows up without warning. He takes her back with him to California, where she reinvents her life. 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. 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.

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Joyce Maynard was a freshman at Yale when she published her memorable New York Times cover story, An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back at Life. Her novel, To Die For, is now a movie produced by Columbia Pictures. She lives in Keene, New Hamphire, with her three children. Amanda Friday loves being able to create and breathe life into beloved characters from classic literature to contemporary work. Her favorite genres to narrate are romance (using her pseudonym) and NA/YA. Amanda is passionate about the arts and bringing high quality audio productions into homes the world over.

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