Monica Wood
Author
Formats
Description
Winner of the 2012 Sarton Memoir Award
Every few years, a memoir comes along that revitalizes the form. With generous, precise, and unsentimental prose, Monica Wood brilliantly achieves this . . . When We Were the Kennedys is a deeply moving gem! Andre Dubus Iii, author of House of Sand and Fog and Townie
Mexico, Maine, 1963: The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent on the fathers wages from the Oxford...
Author
Formats
Description
After surviving a near-fatal accident, thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell faces a long road to recovery. She remembers little about the days she spent in and out of consciousness, save for one thing: She saw her beloved deceased uncle, Father Mike, the man who raised her in the rectory of his Maine church until she was nine, at which time she was abruptly sent away to boarding school. Was Father Mike an angel, a messenger from the beyond, or something...
Author
Formats
Description
The bestselling author of The One-in-a-Million Boy has crafted a story collection that "illuminates the grace in the average and everyday" of a small town (San Francisco Chronicle).
In ten interlinking stories, the town of Abbot Falls reacts as Ernie Whitten, pipefitter, builds a giant ark in his backyard. Ernie was weeks away from a pension-secured retirement when the union went on strike. Now his wife Marie is ill. Struck with sudden inspiration,...
Author
Description
Cecilia has a mom who always tells her no! Any time she wants to have fun, her mom says no! Until one day, Cecilia's mom decides to take her on an adventure. An adventure full of yes and yeses! ¡Cecilia tiene una madre que siempre le dice no! Cada vez que quiere divertirse, su madre dice: ¡No! Hasta que un día, la madre de Cecilia decide llevar a su niña por un viaje imprevisto. ¡Un viaje lleno de sí y síes!