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

by Monica Wood

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1963, Mexico, Maine. The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent on a father s wages from the Oxford Paper Company. Until the sudden death of Dad, when Mum and the four closely connected Wood girls are set adrift. Funny and to-the-bone moving, "When We Were the Kennedys" is the story of how this family saves itself, at first by depending on Father Bob, Mum s youngest brother, a charismatic Catholic priest who feels his new responsibilities deeply. And then, as the nation is shocked by the loss of its handsome Catholic president, the...Read more
  • ISBN10 054763014X
  • ISBN13 9780547630144
  • Publish Date 10 July 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 28 June 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Houghton Mifflin
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English