When We Were the Kennedys by Monica Wood
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 Paper Company. But when Dad suddenly dies on his way to work, Mum and the four deeply connected Wood girls are set adrift. When We Were the Kennedys is the story of how a family, a town, and then a nation mourns and finds the strength to move on.
"On her own terms, wry and empathetic, Wood locates the melodies in the aftershock of sudden loss."--Boston Globe
"[A] marvel of storytelling, layered and rich. It is, by turns, a chronicle of the renowned paper mill that was both pride and poison to several generations of a town; a tribute to the ethnic stew of immigrant families that grew and prospered there; and an account of one family's grief, love, and resilience."--Maine Sunday Telegram
MONICA WOOD is the author of When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine, as well as the national bestseller and Book Sense Top Ten selection Any Bitter Thing. Ernie's Ark and My Only Tale, a Kate Chopin Prize finalist, are two of her other works of fiction. Her work has featured in O, Oprah's Magazine, The New York Times, Martha Stewart Living, Parade, and a variety of other magazines. Wood is a resident of Portland, Maine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780544002326 |
| ISBN 10 | 0544002326 |
| Title | When We Were the Kennedys |
| Author | Monica Wood |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Mariner Books |
| Year published | 2013-06-11 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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