TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wood,Monica
TI  - How to read a book: a novel 
SN  - 9780063243675
U1  - 813/.54 23/eng/20240409
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Boston
PB  - Mariner Books
KW  - Women ex-convicts
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Drunk driving
KW  - Drinking and traffic accidents
KW  - Book clubs (Discussion groups)
KW  - Widowers
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Ex-détenues
KW  - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Conduite en état d'ivresse
KW  - Consommation d'alcool et accidents de la route
KW  - Clubs de lecture
KW  - Veufs
KW  - Livres et lecture
KW  - Humorous fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Novels
KW  - Romans
KW  - rvmgf
N2  - "Violet 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. When 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. How 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"--
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