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02294aam a2200325 i 4500 001 C3E24EDA27B811EF9FBFAF4235ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240611010142 008 240411s2024 xx ed 000 0 und d 020 $a 0063412659 020 $a 9780063412651 040 $a TLC $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Wood, Monica. $0 (DLC)n 92073956 245 10 $a How to Read a Book: / $c Wood, Monica. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper Large Print, $c 2024 300 $a 455 pages $c 24 cm. 340 $n Large print $2 rda 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Women ex-convicts $v Fiction $0 (DLC)sh 92002664 650 0 $a Drunk driving $v Fiction $0 (DLC)sh 85039787 650 0 $a Drinking and traffic accidents $v Fiction $0 (DLC)sh 85039579 650 0 $a Book clubs (Discussion groups) $v Fiction $0 (DLC)sh2003003058 650 0 $a Widowers $v Fiction $0 (DLC)sh 85146607 650 0 $a Books and reading $v Fiction $0 (DLC)sh 85015758 655 7 $a Large type books $2 tlcgt 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l SHPC094 $d 20240611031805.0 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611024033.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C3E24EDA27B811EF9FBFAF4235ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search