“Book Descriptions: This Time Might Be Different by award-winning writer Elaine Ford is a collection of stories in which deftly drawn characters contemplate difficult 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 "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."” DRIVE