The Usual Rules
- Author Joyce Maynard
- Narrator Amanda Friday
- Publisher Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date 22 February 2022
- Run Time 12 hours and 30 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and bereavement, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: First experiences and growing up.
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What to expect
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.
| Author | Joyce Maynard |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Amanda Friday |
| Duration | 12 hours and 30 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781666196528 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Tantor Media, Inc |
| Genre | Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and bereavement, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: First experiences and growing up |
| Availability | US |
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