Mary Wolf Author:Cynthia D. Grant The vacation that never ended. — Once, Mary Wolf had a simple life, a normal life, with a mother, a father, and three younger sisters. They lived together in a house, went to school, and did all the typical things families did. Then Mary's father lost his job, and everything changed. Another job wasn't so easy to find, so he packed th... more »em all into the RV and hit the road. He said they were taking a vacation.
Two years have since passed. Theyre still on vacation, and Mary's sick of it. She's sick of the lying, the stealing, the constant motion. She just wants to stop and be a normal family again.
Marys life is spiraling downward. And with her mother retreating back to childhood and her father believing his own lies, there's no one who can stop it except her. But there are no easy solutions to Mary's problems, and the one she is forced to choose is also the most difficult one to accept.
Grant establishes the desperation of lives ruled by nightmare, drawing the threads of her narrative ever tighter so that only extraordinary force can alter her character's destinies.