BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.6.6//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Author visit with Monica Wood X-WR-CALDESC:Bangor Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20240404T063000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20240404T063000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Author visit with Monica Wood DESCRIPTION:Visit Monica Wood as she stops in Bangor as part of her swin g through northern Maine with her latest title "How to Read a Book."\n\n About the book\n\nViolet Powell\, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbot t Falls\, Maine\, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teach er.\n\nHarriet Larson\, a retired English teacher who runs the prison bo ok club\, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest.\n\nFrank D aigle\, a retired machinist\, hasn’t yet come to grips with the compli cations of his marriage to the woman Violet killed.\n\nWhen the three en counter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland—Violet to bu y 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 t o dispatch his duties as the store handyman—their lives begin to inter sect in transformative ways.\n\nHow to Read a Book is an unsparingly hon est and profoundly hopeful story about letting go of guilt\, seizing sec ond chances\, and the power of books to change our lives. With the heart \, wit\, grace\, and depth of understanding that has characterized her w ork\, Monica Wood illuminates the decisions that define a life and the k indnesses that make life worth living. - Barnes &\; Noble\n\nAbout M onica\n\nMonica Wood is a novelist\, memoirist\, and playwright\; the 20 24 recipient of the Sarah Josepha Hale Award for excellence in the arts in New England\; the 2019 Constance Carlson Prize for contributions to t he public humanities in Maine\; and the 2018 Maine Writers and Publisher s Alliance Distinguished Achievement Award for her contributions to the literary arts. Her newest novel\, How to Read a Book\, has already secur ed translation rights in five countries. Her previous novel\, the bestse lling The One-in-a-Million Boy\, was translated into 20 languages in ove r 30 countries. She is also the author of When We Were the Kennedys\, a New England bestseller and winner of the May Sarton Memoir Award.\n\nHer other fiction\, Any Bitter Thing\, Ernie’s Ark\, and My Only Story\, have also won awards and made bestseller lists. Her short stories have b een widely anthologized and featured on Public Radio International. Her nonfiction and reviews have appeared in O\, the New York Times\, Literar y Hub\, Down East\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, Martha Stewart Living\ , Parade\, and many other publications. She is also the author of severa l books for aspiring writers and three plays\, Papermaker\, The Half-Lig ht\, and Saint Dad. She lives in Portland with her husband\, Dan Abbott\ , and their cat\, Susie. URL;VALUE=URI:https://downtownbangor.com/events/author-visit-with-monica -wood/ UID:urn:uuid:a9c79cb3-519b-40cb-8fe5-61323e62fb05 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260628T091726Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241003T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241003T193000 LOCATION:Bangor Public Library END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR