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SUMMARY:Author Visit - Monica Wood
DESCRIPTION:Maine author\, Monica Wood will be here on her book tour of her 
 latest book\, How to Read a Book.  She will talk about her book\, her 
 writing\, her research and her books will be available to purchase and have 
 signed.\n\nHow to Read a Book:\n\nA charming\, deeply moving novel about 
 second chances\, unlikely friendships\, and the life-changing power of 
 sharing stories.\n\nOur 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…\n\nViolet Powell\, a twenty-two-year-old 
 from rural 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.\n\nWhen 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.\n\nHow to Read a Book  is an unsparingly honest and 
 profoundly hopeful story about 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. \n\nOther books by Monica Wood:\n\n  Secret 
 Language (1993)\n  My Only Story (2000)\n  Any Bitter Thing (2005)\n  The 
 One-in-a-Million Boy (2016)\n  How to Read a Book (2024)\n\nMemoir:\n\nWhen 
 we were the Kennedys : a memoir from Mexico\, Maine (2013)\n\n
LOCATION:McCarthy Meeting Room (Entire Room)
ORGANIZER;CN="Jill Kenny":MAILTO:jkenny@chelmsfordlibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Literature & Learning
CONTACT;CN="Jill Kenny":MAILTO:jkenny@chelmsfordlibrary.org
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URL:https://chelmsfordlibrary.libcal.com/event/12661205
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