This Time Might Be Different: Stories of Maine

This Time Might Be Different by award-winning writer Elaine Ford is a collection of stories in which deftly drawn characters contemplate difficult choices: a young girl might have coffee with a stranger; a guy might decide to rob the local laundromat; or a widow might get in the car and just keep driving.

Underneath the commonplace―running into an old lover, a longstanding feud, an unspoken divorce―readers will find a trace of dark humor, a sinister underpinning, or a profound irony.

Of Ford's rural-Maine-set novel Monkey Bay, The New York Times said: "In its unsparing but sympathetic treatment of its characters and locale, Elaine Ford's book is reminiscent of Andrew Wyeth's stark paintings, which use the terrain of northern New England to explore a much larger emotional landscape."

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• The Price of the Haircut: Stories
• Clock Dance: A novel
• Kingdom of the Blind: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
• Stay Hidden: A Novel (Mike Bowditch Mysteries)
• Life Designs
• Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
• Missed connections
• Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
• Monkey Bay