Tanya Robinson

10 Tanya Robinson calls her daughter’s cell for the fourth time in the last twenty minutes and for the fourth time gets nothing but Barbara’s chirpy voicemail.

Tanya repeatedly calls Barbara’s unanswered phone.

Still, she’s so much better than when he first met her. Under the patient tutelage of Tanya Robinson, Jerome and Barbara’s mother, she’s even developed something approximating clothes sense. “I will,” he says, “but I wouldn’t mind a head start.

The narrator identifies Tanya as the Robinson siblings’ mother who helps Holly with clothes.

She’s walking there along the service road when her phone lights up again. It’s Tanya Robinson. Holly says hello and sits on a bench outside the convenience store. Dew has fallen and the seat of her pants gets wet.

Tanya calls and Holly answers while sitting outside the convenience store.

My fracked-up family. Because Jerome keeps his phone off when he’s working, she calls Tanya Robinson, Jerome and Barbara’s mom. Holly tells Tanya she won’t be able to eat Sunday dinner with them because she needs to go upstate.

Holly calls Tanya and tells her about changing Sunday dinner plans.

27 It’s six-twenty when Tanya Robinson arrives at the MAC, and as she joins the line of incoming vehicles, she wishes she’d listened to the girls’ importuning and left for the concert an …

Tanya arrives at the concert complex with the girls.