by Joyce Maynard · tapa dura · ISBN 9780312242619
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«The Usual Rules» is the novel by Joyce Maynard, published by St. Martin's Press in 2003 in hardback (390 pages, in English).
Brooklyn, September 11, 2001: Wendy heads to school as on any other day. Soon comes the news that a plane has crashed into the Twin Towers, where her mother worked. The novel narrates her grief and her move to California with her biological father, where she discovers a strength and compassion she didn't know she had.
A read for young people and adults seeking a story of grief, family, and resilience.
Joyce Maynard is an American novelist and journalist. She began her career in journalism in the 1970s, writing for several publications, most notably Seventeen magazine and The New York Times. Maynard contributed to Mademoiselle and Harrowsmith magazines in the 1980s, while also beginning a career as a novelist with the publication of her first novel, Baby Love (1981). Her second novel, To Die For (1992), drew on the Pamela Smart murder case and was adapted by Gus Van Sant into the film To Die For in 1995. Maynard received significant media attention in 1998 with the publication of her memoir At Home in the World, in which she describes her relationship with J. D. Salinger.
