{"product_id":"ernies-ark-the-abbott-falls-stories-9781567926682","title":"Ernie's Ark: The Abbott Falls Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Monica Wood\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: David R. Godine Publisher\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Like Elizabeth Strout, her fellow chronicler of small-town Maine life, Monica Wood imbues her characters with the complexity and humanity of real people. \u003ci\u003eErnie's Ark\u003c\/i\u003e is as true as life.\"--Christina Baker Kline, author of \u003ci\u003eOrphan Train\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn ten interlinking stories, the town of Abbot Falls reacts as Ernie Whitten, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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 \u0026amp; 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. . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFew writers can capture the extraordinary within seemingly ordinary lives as does Monica Wood. An unforgettable tapestry of love, loneliness--and neighbors.","brand":"David R. Godine Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45411461824663,"sku":"9781567926682","price":1021.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781567926682.webp?v=1767672798","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ernies-ark-the-abbott-falls-stories-9781567926682","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}