Ebook {Epub PDF} When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico Maine by Monica Wood

 · Mexico, Maine—“Gateway to the Western Mountains”—is the town where Monica Wood grew up, and “When We Were the Kennedys” is her memoir of those years when they were a family living in Mexico, a town across the Androscoggin River from Rumford, Maine, which in was home to the Oxford Paper company’s paper mill/5(K).  · “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, The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all Brand: Monica Wood. Monica Wood’s memoir, When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine, is not an homage to the fabled First Family of the Camelot years, but to storytelling itself. In April of , on a morning otherwise unremarkably routine, the author’s father died unexpectedly of a heart attack.

Read "When We Were the Kennedys A Memoir from Mexico, Maine" by Monica Wood available from Rakuten Kobo. Winner of the Sarton Memoir Award. "[A] marvel of storytelling, layered and rich an account of one family's grief. When We Were the Kennedys by Monica Wood About the Book , Mexico, Maine: The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors. But when Dad suddenly dies on his way to work, Mum and the four deeply connected Wood girls are set adrift. WHEN W. The story takes place in Mexico, Maine (and yes, I'd never heard of a Mexico in Maine before either) in the early 's. The title When We Were the Kennedys refers to the parallel experience the first family and country had when President Kennedy was suddenly assassinated. A very well written book, funny at times.

Monica Wood’s memoir, When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine, is not an homage to the fabled First Family of the Camelot years, but to storytelling itself. In April of , on a morning otherwise unremarkably routine, the author’s father died unexpectedly of a heart attack. By Monica Wood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ) Monica Wood writes that her book When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine “results from my having been an observant child living in a vibrant place and time.”. When We Were the Kennedys is a sharp, stunning portrait of a family’s grief and healing, and it also offers a refreshing lens through which to view the JFK tragedy, as his family’s loss helps the Woods feel less adrift in their own sea of anguish. “For now,” the author writes late in the book, “Jackie’s story made Mum’s bearable.”.