Monica Wood

The One-in-a-Million Boy is for anyone who loves to laugh, cry, and think about how extraordinary ordinary life can be. Not to be missed by readers who loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Elizabeth is Missing, or The Shock of the Fall. The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything at school?...

"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 Review "A beautiful, big-hearted treasure of a novel." --Lily King National Bestseller. From the award-winning author of The One-in-a-Million Boy comes a heartfelt, character-driven, and uplifting novel about a chance...

Winner of the Nautilus Award and the New England Society Book Award, Monica Wood's The One-in-a-Million Boy is the incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help her around the house—a tale of intergenerational friendship that touches each member of the boy's unmoored family. "The story of your life never starts at the...

A beloved short story collection—now in a new paperback edition with a never-before-published story and an afterword by the author. In nine interlinking stories, the town of Abbot Falls reacts as Ernie Whitten, pipefitter, builds an ark in his backyard. The community itself is struggling to survive as a strike at the local paper mill wears on. Few writers can...