This is not a closed group, so please feel free to join us on our next reading, author Monica Wood's The One in a Million Boy. Published in 22 languages in 30 countries, it was the winner of the Nautilus Award and the New England Society Book Award in 2017.

Monica Wood, born (and still living) in Maine, to an Irish Catholic family, worked as a guidance counselor and in a nursing home before becoming a full-time writer. She is also the author of When We Were the Kennedys, a New England bestseller, Oprah magazine summer-reading pick, and winner of the May Sarton Memoir Award and the 2016 Maine Literary Award.

What's it about? "The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything at school?"
So says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who's been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long life, from first love to second chances. Soon she's confessing secrets she has kept hidden for decades.
One Saturday, the boy doesn't show up. Ona starts to think he's not so special after all, but then his father arrives on her doorstep, determined to finish his son's good deed. The boy's mother is not so far behind. Ona is set to discover that the world can surprise us at any age, and that sometimes sharing a loss is the only way to find ourselves again.

Note that the Library is closed Thursday mornings, so we won't be distracted by library activities.We provide tea and coffee: bringing nibbles to share is encouraged!