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How to Read a Book: A Novel
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The perfect pick to really light a fire under my book club, and yours....A reminder that goodness, and books, can still win in this world. New York Times Book ReviewA beautiful, bighearted treasure of a novel. Lily KingNational Bestseller * From the awardwinning author of The OneinaMillion Boy comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookstore, exploring redemption, unlikely friendships, and the lifechanging power of sharing stories.Our Reasons meet us in the morning and whisper to us at night. Mine is an innocent, unsuspecting, eternally sixtyoneyearold woman named Lorraine Daigle?Violet Powell, a twentytwoyearold from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twentytwo months for a drunkdriving 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 PortlandViolet 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 handymantheir 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.A deeply humane and touching novel; highly recommended for book clubs and fans of Shelby Van Pelts Remarkably Bright Creatures. Booklist
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