Ernies Ark, Monica Wood
Ernies Ark, Monica Wood
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Ernie's Ark
The Abbott Falls Stories

Author: Monica Wood

Narrator: Charlie Thurston

Unabridged: 6 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/09/2021

Synopsis

In nine interlinking stories, the town of Abbot Falls reacts as Ernie Whitten, a pipefitter, builds a giant ark in his backyard. Ernie was weeks away from a pension-secured retirement when the union went on strike. Now his wife Marie is ill. Struck with sudden inspiration, Ernie builds the ark as a work of art for his wife to see from the window; a vessel to carry them both away; or a plea for God to spare Marie, come hell or high water.

As the ark takes shape, the rest of the town carries on. There's Dan Little, a building-code enforcer who comes to fine Ernie for the ark and makes a significant discovery about himself; Francine Love, a precocious thirteen-year-old who longs to be a part of the family-like world of the union workers; and Atlantic Pulp & Paper CEO Henry John McCoy, an impatient man wearily determined to be a good father to his twenty-six-year-old daughter. The people of Abbott Falls will try their best to hold a community together, against the fiercest of odds . . .

About Monica Wood

Monica Wood is a novelist, memoirist, and playwright. Her novel The One-in-a-Million Boy, has been published in twenty-two languages in thirty countries and won the 2017 Nautilus Award and the New England Society Book Award. She is also the author of When We Were the Kennedys, an Oprah magazine summer-reading pick and winner of both the May Sarton Memoir Award and the 2016 Maine Literary Award. Ernie's Ark was excerpted on NPR's "Selected Shorts" and selected by several towns and cities as their "One Book, One Community" read.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda on August 03, 2018

Monica Wood brings to life characters that can see into another’s heart . In her beloved , prize winning One -in-a-million-boy she masterfully shines with characters that walked into my heart and never left. This collection was written 15 years earlier and we are witness to her early gift in a colle......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on August 28, 2009

I don't know how Monica Wood isn't more well known. Her writing just blows me away. Simple and sparse, yet very evocative. It's been a long time (10+ years?) since I've found an author I love so much I have to immediately read everything (s)he's written. Unfortunately she hasn't written all that muc......more

Goodreads review by Monica on April 18, 2022

Neste livro conhecemos Ernie Whitten que resolve construir uma Arca como a de Noé, para homenagear a mulher Marie que está a morrer. Durante esta construção, vão surgindo várias personagens que acabam por estar interligadas e que se unem em torno de Ernie. Foi uma leitura rápida um livro que distrai......more

Goodreads review by Sherry on April 27, 2012

You know I love a bargain, right? Finding Ernie's Ark as the Nook Daily Find, for 99 cents... it's like finding a pretty little vase at a garage sale that turns out to be Tiffany. Is it nine short stories, or is it a novel? Is it melancholy, or is it brimming with hope? Are the characters really messe......more

Goodreads review by Molly on March 23, 2023

Wanting to read another by this author I went with this novel which is nine stories that are all connected and circulate around the small paper mill community Abott Falls and the strike they are on. It is also about Ernie and his building an ark during the time of his wife’s final days. I once again......more

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