Someday Never Comes

<p><strong><em>Your father isn't coming back.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Your father isn't and neither is mine.</em></strong></p><p><em>Let me get one thing straight before anyone gets mad at me: our family wasn't perfect before he left either.</em></p><p>Middle sister Jen knows it's one thing to waste your own life but quite another to waste the lives of a whole family. Leaving must have seemed like the best option to Dad. But she's too smart not to know better.</p><p>Her older sister Casey hides her bitterness in a shell going out every night and disguising her pain in sex and cigarettes.</p><p>And the two little ones cling to whichever sibling shares the motel bed with them.</p><p>For oldest brother Jared losing a game of Rock Paper Scissors is supposed to be the best option a ticket out but it doesn't feel that way. Will who wins stays behind to be the man to take care of his younger siblings and his mom Amy as they set off to find their father living out of the pickup or in sweaty motel rooms. He's got to be the husband and father and brother the Holy Trinity rolled into one tall dark and handsome package.</p><p>Will tries to keep his sister Casey from going out with random boys every night looking for escape.</p><p>Will comforts his youngest sibling Tommy when Jared leaves.</p><p>Will makes a momentous decision that breaks his family's heart and brings them back together.</p><p>And David their father tries to be the best man he knows how to be and fails.</p><p><em>Someday Never Comes</em> is a gripping exploration of family ties and traumas and the patterns that can be impossible to escape. It's a coming-of-age story told through a series of viewpoints: Casey Jen Will Jared their father and the boy Casey can't forget. Their struggles reveal an intense and poignant love that leads one of them to death one to reunion with the family and one to the possibility of a new life that breaks the age-old pattern.</p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the author</strong></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rebecca Grove Munson</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> was born on March 29 1984 in St. Louis Missouri.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She earned honors degrees from John Burroughs School Columbia University Oxford University and University of California Berkeley then won postdoctoral fellowships to UCLA and Emory University. She joined the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University and became the Assistant Director. Her teaching and research focused on Shakespeare but during her many years of education she never stopped writing fiction.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In 2018 Rebecca was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer. With steely determination and no hint of self-pity she continued to work teach write and enjoy life. She started the blog </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Pitiless Achilles</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> to chronicle her experiences of cancer and cofounded Young and Strong an online support group at Dana-Farber Cancer Center.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rebecca died in her childhood home on August 13 2021. That it was Friday the 13th would have amused her.</span></p>