So, after the devastation of losing the mother of the family, Wendy, Josh and Louie are struggling. They are all experiencing strange behavior and unexplainable reactions as a result to the massive loss they are trying to cope with. Josh is losing it, Louie can't live without his mother and Wendy...well, she seems to be doing just fine-to everyone on the outside. But the truth is, she isn't.
One day, her real father, Garret, unexpectedly shows up to their door from California. Wendy hadn't seen him in years, but I guess in this time of crisis, he was "her only parent", as he put it. He insisted that she move to California with him, to get away from New York, if only for a little while. Wendy didn't want to go, but she thought she'd give it a try.
California wasn't at all what she expected. And neither was her father. He was a normal guy, who read normal magazines and watched normal television shows. Basically, he was just a regular guy. He enrolled her in a school there, but after the first day she stopped going to school. Wendy would take a bus to Sacramento and hang out with a girl named Violet, who just had a baby. Or she would ride her dad's bike to a book store and talk to the worker, Alan.
The thing was, she picked up the habit of lying. She lied about her name, her past, her family and of course-to her dad, about school. But the plus about moving to California, she described to her best friend, Amelia on the phone, was that she'd been slimming down.
I wish I could just tell Wendy that she's wrong, or that she should stop being irresponsible, because that's not what her mother would want her to do. At the same time, though, her moving to Cali may have been good for her, because she's starting to move on-or at least that what it seems like.
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