When We Were the Kennedys : A Memoir from Mexico, Maine

from coppers

Monica Wood, a fiction writer, wrote this memoir of her childhood in Mexico, a small town in western Maine which is wholly dependent upon the local paper mill. She mostly writes of the year which follows the sudden death of her father in 1963 and her nine year old understanding of what that meant...

from KRaySaulis

I expected to enjoy this book. I enjoyed Ernie's Ark and I thought Secret Language was touching and amazing. I knew that it would probably be a bit surreal to read a memoir about a town I know better than I know any other place in the world. The place I lived for a third of my life. I didn't know...

from msf59

"What happened to my family in April is now happening to the Kennedys; what happened to the Kennedys is now happening to the whole country; and the whole country cannot stop crying." Mexico, Maine, is a small working class town, dependent on the Oxford Paper Company. The Wood family is no differe...

from homeschoolmimzi

One of the best memoirs I've read this year. Monica Wood reminds me a little of myself- she also lost her father when she was very young, grew up in a Catholic family, went to Catholic school in the 60's and played many of the same games I played as a child. But the similarity stops there. She ha...

from DetailMuse

A friend had been urging me to read this coming-of-age memoir and I'd resisted, having hated (and never finished) an earlier book by the author (Description, part of a how-to series for writers). I loved this memoir, and I loved it particularly for its ... wait for it ... phenomenal descriptive a...