01946cam a2200373 i 4500 1184812226 TxAuBib 20240516120000.0 240417s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2024007639 9780063243675 HRD 28.00 0063243679 HRD 28.00 (OCoLC)1430348828 TxAuBib rda Wood, Monica. How to read a book [BOOK] : a novel / Monica Wood. First edition. Boston : Mariner Books, [2024] ©2024. 280 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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.". 20240516. Women ex-convicts Fiction. Drunk driving Fiction. Drinking and traffic accidents Fiction. Book clubs (Discussion groups) Fiction. Widowers Fiction. Books and reading Fiction. Humorous fiction. Psychological fiction.