Mexico, Maine, 1963: The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic immigrant neighbors, all dependent on the fathers? wages from the Oxford Paper Company. Then Dad suddenly dies on his way to work, setting Mum and the four deeply connected Wood girls adrift -- just as the nation loses its handsome, young, Catholic president. When We Were the Kennedys is the story of how a family, a town, and then a nation mourns and finds the strength to move on.
