The official website for New York Times best-selling author Ann Hood. See the books, her blog, Gracie Belle imprint, and upcoming events.

"Ann Hood has created a searingly moving story about the extraordinary, even magical ways that lives unravel and then connect." Dani Shapiro The Red Thread was inspired my family's decision to adopt our daughter Annabelle from China in 2005.

The official website for New York Times best-selling author Ann Hood. See the books, her blog, Gracie Belle imprint, and upcoming events. Her new book "Fly Girl" is available for pre-order wherever you buy books!

I have wanted to be a writer for as long as I remember. My favorite books when I was a kid were Little Women and Nancy Drew.Later, I loved Marjorie Morningstar, Les Miserables and Doctor Zhivago, obviously choosing books by size!. A Rhode Island native, I was born in West Warwick and spent high school working as a Marsha Jordan Girl, modeling for the Jordan Marsh department store at the ...

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"Growing up in “a big, noisy family, in rooms overflowing with people and food”, novelist Hood savoured her Italian grandmother Rose’s polenta with kale, tomato sauce, meatballs and Christmas antipasto. In 27 essays, Hood connects food with memory in delicious ways.

“Hood examines the push and pull between mothers and grown children and the transformative power of fiction.” - People An enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle.

The Knitting Circle ISBN 978-0-393-33044-1 "Acutely moving." People "A wondrously simple book about something complicated:the nearly unendurable process of enduring a great loss."

Comfort: A Journey Through Grief . ISBN-978-0-393-33659-7 An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2008. A New York Times Editor's Choice "Rarely do memoirs of grief combine anguish, love, and fury with such elegance."

Full of honesty and grace, Now You See the Sky--the debut selection in Ann Hood's new Gracie Belle imprint--allows the reader to witness the fathomless loss of a beloved child and learn how tragedy can transform us, expand our vision, and make us more fully alive.