Wood is also the author of four works of fiction, most recently “Any Bitter Thing,” which spent 21 weeks on the American Booksellers Association bestseller list and was named a Book Sense top ten pick. Her other fiction includes “Ernie’s Ark,” “Secret Language” and “My Only Story” — a finalist for the Kate Chopin Award.

Novelist Wood grew up in a mill town in Maine where she was one of many “children of well-paid laborers” who were living the American dream. But everything changed in April 1963 when her father, upon whom the burden of maintaining that dream rested, died at the age of 57. Without his sure and steady presence, the 9-year-old Wood experienced “a profound dislocation, a feeling like slipping on the shifting surface of my allotted scrap of God’s earth.” Funny and moving, “When We Were the Kennedys” is the story of how this family saves itself.

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