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Monica Wood

Biography

Monica Wood

Monica Wood is a novelist, memoirist and playwright; a recipient of the Maine Humanities Council Carlson Prize for contributions to the public humanities; and a recipient of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Distinguished Achievement Award for contributions to the literary arts. She lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband, Dan Abbott, and their cat, Susie.

Monica Wood

Books by Monica Wood

When We Were the Kennedys
by Monica Wood - Fiction

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.

Secret Language
by Monica Wood