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The Madstone, November 2023
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Monday, Monday, May 2014
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Monday, Monday
Elizabeth Crook

Sarah Crichton Books
May 2014
On Sale: April 29, 2014
Featuring: Charles Whitman; Wyatt; Jack
352 pages
ISBN: 0374228825
EAN: 9780374228828
Kindle: B00GL3XKAC
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical | Fiction

In this gripping, emotionally charged novel, a tragedy in Texas changes the course of three lives

On an oppressively hot Monday in August of 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the University of Texas tower and began firing on pedestrians below. Before it was over, sixteen people had been killed and thirty-two wounded. It was the first mass shooting of civilians on a campus in American history.

Monday, Monday follows three students caught up in the massacre: Shelly, who leaves her math class and walks directly into the path of the bullets, and two cousins, Wyatt and Jack, who heroically rush from their classrooms to help the victims. On this searing day, a relationship begins that will eventually entangle these three young people in a forbidden love affair, an illicit pregnancy, and a vow of secrecy that will span forty years. Reunited decades after the tragedy, they will be forced to confront the event that changed their lives and that has silently and persistently ruled the lives of their children.

With electrifying storytelling and the powerful sense of destiny found in Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto, and with the epic sweep of Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins, Elizabeth Crook’s Monday, Monday explores the ways in which we sustain ourselves and one another when the unthinkable happens. At its core, it is the story of a woman determined to make peace with herself, with the people she loves, and with a history that will not let her go. A humane treatment of a national tragedy, it marks a generous and thrilling new direction for a gifted American writer.

Comments

10 comments posted.

Re: Monday, Monday

Your post was really thought provoking. I was actually born in 1966, barely,
on December 30. But I still feel like the whole year belongs to me because
I always use it in my DOB. It is interesting to learn what was going on then.
Like when I was small and I would ask my mom to tell me stories from
when I was young.
(Shelley Maier 2:54pm June 16, 2014)

I already read Monday, Monday, and felt like it was going to be a book with "good vibrations" but instead it was a largely sorrowful story....check my review on Goodreads. I would love to win this as a gift for a close friend of mine who went through the 60's with me.
(Susan Coster 5:09pm June 16, 2014)

I was a 'child in the sixties' as well and remember so many of the things you related in your post. I haven't thought of Bobby Goldsboro and his 'cricket' sound in many years. Most of my memories of that time are pleasant and joyful. Some, unfortunately, are not but need to be remembered nonetheless. Thank you for allowing me to walk down memory lane with you.
(Debbie Kelly 10:19pm June 16, 2014)

The book sounds great. I was not born in the 60s but that was my parent's music so I really love it.
(Pam Howell 8:35am June 17, 2014)

I was just starting my teens in '66... I would love to go back to that time.
(Becky Ledkins 11:37am June 17, 2014)

I loved that song!
(Denise Austin 6:26pm June 17, 2014)

The 60s was a great decade. Love the music from that era.
(Bonnie H 9:39pm June 17, 2014)

Wow, Congrats on your new book: MONDAY, MONDAY. I like the
book cover too! Yes, I was age 10 in 1966 and there was a
bunch of fantastic music during that time. I have lived in
Austin, TX since 1985 where the Deadly Tower at UT is
located. Many changes have come to Austin, TX since I first
moved here. I would truly love to win and read your
fantastic book in 2014. Thank You very much. Cecilia CECE
(Cecilia Dunbar Hernandez 11:11pm June 17, 2014)

What an adventure. Hope the book is a good a read as the blog!
(Laura Gullickson 11:59pm June 17, 2014)

I was a teen in the 60's and enjoyed all the music during that time. That was some of the best music and still enjoy it to this day. This book sounds very good, and I love the title. Now, I've got the song going on in my head!
(Linda Luinstra 6:44pm June 18, 2014)