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02194aam a2200313 i 4500 001 59C378F2039211EFA918CE9A5AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240426010057 008 240409s2024 mau 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0063243679 020 $a 9780063243675 040 $a IMmBT $b eng $c IMmBT $e rda $d SILO 050 14 $a PS3573.O5948 $b H69 2024 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23/eng/20240409 100 1 $a Wood, Monica, $e author. 245 10 $a How to read a book : $b a novel / $c Monica Wood. 264 1 $a Boston : $b Mariner Books, $c [2024] 300 $a 280 pages ; $c 24 cm 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women ex-convicts $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Drunk driving $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Drinking and traffic accidents $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Book clubs (Discussion groups) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Widowers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Books and reading $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l HHPC765 $d 20240426010101.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=59C378F2039211EFA918CE9A5AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search