When We Were the Kennedys - by Monica Wood (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Monica Wood's moving memoir of the season in 1963 Mexico, Maine, as she, her mother, and her three sisters healed after the loss of their mill-worker father and then the nation's loss of its handsome young Catholic president.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Winner of the 2012 Sarton Memoir Award <p/>"Every few years, a memoir comes along that revitalizes the form...With generous, precise, and unsentimental prose, Monica Wood brilliantly achieves this . . . <i>When We Were the Kennedys</i> is a deeply moving gem!"--Andre Dubus III, author of <i>House of Sand and Fog</i> and <i>Townie</i> <p/>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. <i>When We Were the Kennedys</i> is the story of how a family, a town, and then a nation mourns and finds the strength to move on. <p/>"On her own terms, wry and empathetic, Wood locates the melodies in the aftershock of sudden loss."--<i>Boston Globe</i> <p/>"[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."--<i>Maine Sunday Telegram </i><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Winner of the 2012 Sarton Memorial Award <br> Every few years, a memoir comes along that revitalizes the form With generous, precise, and unsentimental prose, Monica Wood brilliantly achieves this . . . <i>When We Were the Kennedys</i> is a deeply moving gem! Andre Dubus III, author of <i>House of Sand and Fog</i> and <i>Townie</i> <br>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. <i>When We Were the Kennedys</i> is the story of how a family, a town, and then a nation mourns and finds the strength to move on. <br> On her own terms, wry and empathetic, Wood locates the melodies in the aftershock of sudden loss. <i>Boston Globe</i> <br> [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. <i>Maine Sunday Telegram </i> <p><br>"<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><P>"Every few years, a memoir comes along that revitalizes the form, that takes us by the hand and leads us into the dream world of our collective past from which we emerge more wholly ourselves. With generous, precise, and unsentimental prose, Monica Wood brilliantly achieves this, bringing back to life the rural paper mill town of not only her youth but America's, too, its bumbling, hard-working, often violent, yet mostly good-hearted lurch forward into the 21st century. "When We Were the Kennedys" is a deeply moving gem!"--Andre Dubus III, author of "House of Sand and Fog" and "Townie"<P>"This is an extraordinarily moving book, so carefully and artfully realized, about loss and life and love. Monica Wood displays all her superb novelistic skills in this breathtaking, evocative new memoir. Wow."--Ken Burns, filmmaker<P>"Monica Wood has written a gorgeous, gripping memoir. I don't know that I've ever pulled so hard for a family. When We Were the Kennedys captures a shimmering mill-town world on the edge of oblivion, in a voice that brims with hope, feeling, and wonder. The book humbles and soars."--Mike Paterniti, author of "Driving Mr. Albert "<P>"Monica Wood is a stunning writer and "When We Were the Kennedys" a luminous and resonant achievement. If I were standing beside you, I would press this book into your hands."--Lily King, author of "The Pleasing Hour" and "Father of the Rain"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>MONICA WOOD is the author of the novel <i>Any Bitter Thing, </i>an American Booksellers Association extended bestseller and a Book Sense Top Ten pick; <i>Ernie's Ark</i>; and <i>My Only Story</i>, a finalist for the Kate Chopin Award. </p>
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