It’s funny and sad, and full of moments that change Reenie Kelly’s heart. Set in the summer of 1968, when tens of thousands of young men were drafted to fight in the war in Vietnam, it’s also about peace, and what it takes to stand up for our beliefs, even when others are against us. Told entirely in letters, it’s the story of eleven-year-old Reenie Kelly and the unlikely friendship she forms with her reclusive neighbor Mr. My most recent book is the novel Until Tomorrow, Mr. Reading is the best way I know to enter lives that aren’t my own, to learn new things, to travel to places real and imagined. When I need to make sense of the world, or something I witnessed or wonder about, or another person’s heart, I turn to words. Even if that someone began in my imagination. I am eternally interested in everyone’s story, and for me writing fiction is a way of listening for a very long time to someone else. I write because I was born with a deep love for stories. A writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for audiences of all ages, Sheila is a professor in the MFA program at Hamline University, where she also serves as the fiction editor for Water~Stone Review. Sheila O’Connor is the critically acclaimed author of Sparrow Road, winner of the International Reading Award, and Keeping Safe the Stars, as well as the adult novels Tokens of Grace and Where No Gods Came, winner of the Michigan Prize for Literary Fiction and the Minnesota Book Award. The Children’s Book Review | ApSheila OConnor
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