Book description
"Like Elizabeth Strout, her fellow chronicler of small-town Maine life, Monica Wood imbues her characters with the complexity and humanity of real people. Ernie's Ark is as true as life."-Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train
In ten interlinking stories, the town of Abbot Falls reacts as Ernie Whitten, pipefitter,…
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1 author picked Ernie's Ark as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Monica Wood is already one of my favorite authors. Here, she weaves a series of linked, quietly powerful stories about small-town lives, revealing how ordinary moments carry deep emotional weight and connection.
What I liked most is the subtle thread that runs between the stories. Just when you think - this has nothing to do with anything else - there it is, a sliver small as a blood vessel, connecting us to what has come before, or what will come later.
The favorite for me was of course about millworker Ernie, who learns he can’t control everything in…
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