Monday, Monday
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Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters' Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction
Named one of Kirkus Reviews's Best Fiction Books of the Year and a Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the Year
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. Monday, Monday follows three students caught up in the massacre: Shelly, who leaves 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.
This searing day marks the beginning of a relationship that will entangle these three young people in a forbidden love affair, an illicit pregnancy, and a vow of silence that will span forty years. Reunited decades after the tragedy, Shelly, Wyatt, and Jack will be thrown back once more to the event that changed their lives, and confronted with the lingering power of a secret none of them are ready to reveal. With Monday, Monday, "Elizabeth Crook has written an extraordinary novel-an eloquent love story born from an act of random violence, a tale of destruction and redemption" (Sarah Bird).
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CONTENTS
1. The Tower 3
2. Triage 20
3. Jack 29
4. Day from Night 34
5. Long-Distance 39
6. Tempera 45
7. A Perfect Likeness 56
8. What They Couldn't Have 62
9. Before Long 66
10. How Afraid She Was 68
11. In the Rain 72
12. The Minnow Baby 75
13. What Jack Said 78
14. A Knock at the Door 81
15. In Those Long Months 87
16. Going Over 95
17. Aquarena 99
18. Her Name Is Carlotta 103
19. Dan 116
20. Painting Over 123
21. An Unlikely Gift 128
22. Due West 131
23. Lizard Mountain 135
24. Madeline 144
25. The Marfa Lights 148
26. The Secret Side of the Moon 153
27. Into the Woods 159
28. The Dev il's Sinkhole 166
29. Night Journey 179
30. The Lost Years 186
31. Andy 195
32. The Lovely Painting 199
33. Unpredictable Shifts 204
34. Carlotta's Question 208
35. The Salt Air 213
36. A Mere Mishap 218
37. The Road West 225
38. An Uninvited Guest 229
39. A Second Uninvited Guest 235
40. The Blue Blouse 241
41. Promises, Promises 244
42. The Magic 8 Ball 246
43. A Search Party 251
44. Emmett Johnson, Mobile Veterinarian 256
45. The Tadpole's Funeral 260
46. A Family Outing 264
47. Sorting Stones 271
48. Waiting for Carlotta 277
49. The End of the Rodeo 283
50. "One Kiss?" 296
51. The Fierce Wind 301
52. Moonlight Visit 307
53. The Up End of the Seesaw 311
54. A Night Sky 314
55. The Way Home 317
56. The Oyster Shell 323
57. From the Tower 326
Acknowledgments 337