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

Wood, Monica

Memoir from Mexico, Maine native and author of fiction, Monica Wood. Recalls the period of the author's youth around the time of the sudden death of her father. Her family's experience of the loss of its breadwinner in the 1960s. The shape of her 1963 mill-centered community and the diversity of people who inhabited it; portraits of the power of religion and industry among people in the towns of Rumford and Mexico. President John F. Kennedy's 1963 assassination - and the widowhood of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - recounted in light of the disruptive passing of the author's father earlier that same year.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

2012

en

Book

1963-1964

Mexico, Maine

9780547630144

054763014X

235

Boston, Massachusetts