When you go away
By: Jessica Barksdale Inclán.
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Grandparent and child -- Fiction; Maternal deprivation -- Fiction; Motherless families -- Fiction; Mother and child -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Peri Mackenzie, emotionally and financially bereft when her husband walks out leaving her to care for three children, one of them severely handicapped, reaches a breaking point and simply drives away, placing the burden on thirteen-year-old Carly who struggles on until help arrives in the person of their long-estranged grandfather.
Notes: "Fiction for the way we live."