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 Monica Wood
is the author of the novels MY ONLY STORY and SECRET LANGUAGE, and a guide for fiction writers, DESCRIPTION. Her short stories have appeared in such publications as Glimmer Train, Redbook, Yankee, and Best American Mystery Stories 1997. Visit her website at www.monicawood.com.
MY ONLY STORY
When she meets John Reed, beauty shop owner Rita Rosario offers him a haircut and her heart --- and discovers things about herself she never realized. "A thoroughly captivating book: warm and wise and beautifully written." - Richard Russo, author of STRAIGHT MAN
Monica Wood's Summer Reading List
AND GIVE YOU PEACE
by Jessica Treadway
This is the story of a young woman putting her life back together after an unspeakable family tragedy. Treadway's got the goods --- her prose is dreamy and unforgettable!
THE HOTEL EDEN: Stories
by Ron Carlson
I'm an ardent fan of Carlson's short fiction. Unlike 99% of contemporary short stories, each one of his stories feels finished at the end. He can also be fall-down funny.
DIARY OF A LEFT-HANDED BIRDWATCHER
by Leonard Nathan
While you lie in a hammock drinking beer, robins and orioles hustle food for their clamoring nestlings. You might pay feeble tribute to your feathered friends' exertions by reading this poet's sweet, satisfying meditation on birds and words.
MY RUSSIAN
by Deirdre McNamer
I read this last winter and saved it to read again in summer, because I wanted to reexamine McNamer's insights about marriage and friendship that abound in this beautifully written novel. The premise: Pretending to be away on vacation, a woman checks into a motel near home so she can spy on her husband and son.
BLUE DIARY
by Alice Hoffman
Can a man who has committed a hideous crime reform to the point of becoming the moral center of a small town? Hoffman works her practical magic, providing an answer that's at once surprising and inevitable.
P IS FOR PERIL
by Sue Grafton
Every summer I wish for a piano to drop on my head, causing a complete but temporary amnesia that would allow me to start over again with "A" and read nothing but Sue Grafton for two weeks.
RAISE HIGH THE ROOFBEAM, CARPENTERS
by J.D. Salinger
I re-read FRANNY AND ZOOEY recently and decided to re-read the rest of the Salinger oeuvre this summer. I'll start with my favorite: RAISE HIGH THE ROOFBEAM, CARPENTERS.
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