![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Garrett turns up after four years of no contact, wanting to take Wendy with him to California, she blankly acquiesces. Josh and Louie are devastated Wendy’s grief is compounded by guilty memories of typically teenaged sullenness and meanness. Maynard’s chapters on the apocalyptic day when Janet doesn’t come home-and on the surreal subsequent waiting period-are flatly descriptive. Maynard ( Where Love Goes, 1995, etc.) rushes into the breach with the story of a 13-year-old girl whose mother is killed on September 11, 2001.Īs it begins, former dancer Janet (good enough to have understudied in A Chorus Line) is an executive secretary at a company on the World Trade Center’s 87th floor, divorced from Wendy’s irresponsible father Garrett and happily remarried to wonderful, domestic, bass player Josh, father of Janet’s four-year-old son Louie. ![]()
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