Taking Sides
Whereas Brett, of Mom, the Wolf Man and Me, had to adjust to the marriage of her single mother, Nell faces the prospect of her parents' divorce -- and of living with her father, a freelance writer, while Mom lives in the country with a friend, Greta, and works at a full-time job. Although Nell worries about how her six year-old brother Hugo will adjust to Mom's absence and feels apprehension at the prospect of Dad's marrying helpless, whispery Arden, Nell never "takes sides."