![]() ![]() 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. An hour later comes the news: A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center-her mother's office building. 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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