OneinaMillion Boy, The, Monica Wood
OneinaMillion Boy, The, Monica Wood
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One-in-a-Million Boy, The

Author: Monica Wood

Narrator: Chris Ciulla

Unabridged: 10 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/12/2016

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

For years, guitarist Quinn Porter has been on the road, chasing gig after gig, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records-obsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn seeks forgiveness for his paternal shortcomings by completing the requirements for one of his son's unfinished Boy Scout badges. For seven Saturdays, Quinn does yard work for Ona Vitkus, the spry 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant the boy had visited weekly. Quinn soon discovers that the boy had talked Ona into gunning for the world record for Oldest Licensed Driver. Despite himself, Quinn picks up where the boy left off, forging a friendship with Ona that allows him to know the son he never understood.

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

We never know his name but we come to know almost immediately the fate of the eleven year old boy who has a thing for world records and for counting and making lists and collecting things by 10. Is he just quirky or anxious or obsessive compulsive or lonely? Maybe a little of all of these but what w......more