Monica Wood is a novelist, memoirist, and playwright. Her novel The
One-in-a-Million Boy has been translated into twenty languages.
When We Were the Kennedys, a memoir, was a New England bestseller,
Oprah magazine summer-reading pick, and winner of the May Sarton
Memoir Award and the Maine Literary Award. Wood is the 2019
recipient of the Maine Humanities Council Carlson Prize for
contributions to the public humanities, and the 2018 Maine Writers
and Publishers Alliance Distinguished Achievement Award for
contributions to the literary arts. Her novel Meanwhile will be
published in May 2023 by Mariner.
Cathie Pelletier is the author of eleven novels, including The
Funeral Makers, a New York Times Notable Book. The Washington Post
calls her "An ambitious, fearless novelist...one of the funniest
novelists at work in this country."
Praise for Any Bitter Thing
"Deserves a place on the shelf with modern classics such as John
Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany and Richard Russo's Empire
Falls....the story is full of suspense and surprise." --Maine
Sunday Telegram "Wood illuminates the grace in the average and the
everyday, the miracles that lie within the ordinary life....[An]
intimate exploration of love and faith, betrayal and penance."
--San Francisco Chronicle "In prose as fresh and lovely as a Maine
summer evening . . . Wood's story unassumingly builds in power,
right up to its moving final page." --Publishers Weekly "This
emotional story is filled with crisp, rich details that linger in
the memory....Wood's stirring domestic drama is full of surprises
as it explores the weighty themes of religion, perceived innocence,
and the corrosive quality of best intentions." --Booklist
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