How to Read a Book by Monica Wood

How to Read a Book by Monica Wood

"The perfect pick to really light a fire under my book club, and yours....A reminder that goodness, and books, can still win in this world." --New York Times Book Review

"A beautiful, big-hearted treasure of a novel." --Lily King

National Bestseller * From the award-winning author of The One-in-a-Million Boy comes a heartfelt, character-driven, and uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookstore, exploring redemption, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing power of sharing stories.

Our Reasons meet us in the morning and whisper to us at night. Mine is an innocent, unsuspecting, eternally sixty-one-year-old woman named Lorraine Daigle...

In this emotional book club fiction, Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher.

Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest.

Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed.

When the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland--Violet to buy the novel she was reading in the prison book club before her release, Harriet to choose the next title for the women who remain, and Frank to dispatch his duties as the store handyman--their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways.

How to Read a Book is an unsparingly honest and profoundly hopeful story about forgiveness, letting go of guilt, seizing second chances, and the power of books to change our lives. With the heart, wit, grace, and depth of understanding that has characterized her work, Monica Wood illuminates the decisions that define a life and the kindnesses that make life worth living.

"A deeply humane and touching novel; highly recommended for book clubs and fans of Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures." -- Booklist

Wood, Monica: - Monica Wood started her career in education in 2012. She began her teaching journey as a bilingual educator in a Spanish immersion dual language school in Boston, Massachusetts. When she started teaching dual language in the elementary grades, she quickly learned that Latinxs are very much underrepresented in children's literature. She was inspired to write a book in Spanish so that the little girl in her could also feel part of a story. *** Monica Wood comenzü¾Œ¶˜¼ su carrera en educaciü¾Œ¶˜¼n en 2012. Comenzü¾Œ¶˜¼ su viaje de enseü¾Œ–˜¼anza como educadora en una escuela bilingü¾˜¶˜¼e de inmersiü¾Œ¶˜¼n en espaü¾Œ–˜¼ol en Boston, Massachusetts. Cuando comenzü¾Œ¶˜¼ a enseü¾Œ–˜¼ar dos idiomas en los grados de primaria, rü¾Œ–”¼pidamente aprendiü¾Œ¶˜¼ que los Latinxs estü¾Œ–”¼n muy poco representados en la literatura infantil. Ella se inspirü¾Œ¶˜¼ para escribir un libro en espaü¾Œ–˜¼ol, para que la niü¾Œ–˜¼a en ella tambiü¾Ž–”¼n pudiera sentirse parte de una historia.

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ISBN 13	9780063243675
ISBN 10	0063243679
Title	How to Read a Book
Author	Monica Wood
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2024-05-07
Number of pages	288
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.