Irving is reluctant to see them go but is assured by the fact that Rob would never leave him without taking Annie as well. She tells Irving that she and Callie need some bonding time, but what she’s really trying to figure out is exactly how much of her family’s legacy she needs to initiate her eldest child into. Shocked into action by the violence on display between her kids, Rob decides to take Callie, the instigator, back with her to her family’s place out in the Mojave desert. That is until an incident between her children forces her to finally confront the truth that she’s been trying to obscure behind this crumbling model of suburban propriety. She’s determined to grin and bear her awful marriage for the sake of giving her daughters a stable, two-parent family life. Yet she can’t find it in herself to leave him, not even when she knows his sneaking around has managed to give Annie chickenpox. I thought, No one can make me do this anymore. I actually heard the crunch, followed by his cry of pain. I waited until Irving came up behind, then I stepped out onto the porch and slammed the door behind me, right on his reaching hand. The afternoon air was the breath of freedom. I have to believe that’s why I did what I did next. It came up suddenly, memory, and took me by the throat. My body remembered this–running, fear, danger panting close behind. I ran through the house, doorframes slipping in my grasp. The two engage in knock-down, drag-out fights that sometimes have Rob running for her life:Īfter a beat of surprise Irving came after me. Still, she’s determined to give her girls the normal, All-American upbringing that was denied her, even if it means putting up with an increasingly awful Irving, whose disdain for her doesn’t emerge through cheating alone. Irving cheats on her constantly, and while Annie, the youngest and her favorite, is the sweetest child, Rob worries about strange, friendless twelve-year-old Callie. But the cracks are beginning to show in her picture-perfect life. Rob Cussen lives in a beautiful California suburb with her handsome husband Irving and two beloved daughters Callie and Annie.
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