000			02009nam a2200361 i 4500
001			in902840837
005			20240703094049.0
008			240326s2023 nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780063243675 _q(hardback)
040			_aTnLvILS _beng _erda _cTnLvILS
092			_aFiction _bWood
100	1		_aWood, Monica, _eauthor. _95865050
245	1	0	_aHow to read a book : _ba novel / _cMonica Wood.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bMariner Books, _c[2023]
300			_a1 volume ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext
337			_aunmediated
338			_avolume
500			_aAlso known as: Meanwhile.
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"--
650		0	_aWomen ex-convicts _vFiction. _96402202
650		0	_aDrinking and traffic accidents _vFiction. _96425891
650		0	_aDrunk driving _vFiction. _96363403
650		0	_aKindergarten teachers _xDeath _vFiction. _96489961
650		0	_aRetired women _vFiction. _95806900
650		0	_aBook clubs (Discussion groups) _vFiction. _95749884
650		0	_aRetirees _vFiction. _95711662
650		0	_aWidowers _vFiction. _95673770
650		0	_aBooks and reading _vFiction. _95684815
907			_a.b489881233
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
999			_c398149 _d398149