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Winner of the 2012 Sarton Memoir Award
“Each and 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, writer of House of Sand and Fog and Townie
Mexico, Maine, 1963: The Wood circle of relatives is just like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent at the fathers’ wages from the Oxford Paper Company. But if Dad all of sudden 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 circle of relatives, 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 wealthy. It’s, by turns, a chronicle of the renowned paper mill that was once 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 circle of relatives’s grief, love, and resilience.”—Maine Sunday Telegram
“Each and 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, writer of House of Sand and Fog and Townie
Mexico, Maine, 1963: The Wood circle of relatives is just like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent at the fathers’ wages from the Oxford Paper Company. But if Dad all of sudden 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 circle of relatives, 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 wealthy. It’s, by turns, a chronicle of the renowned paper mill that was once 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 circle of relatives’s grief, love, and resilience.”—Maine Sunday Telegram
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