Community Board: A Novel by Tara Conklin

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community. Where does one go, you might ask, when the world falls apart? When the immutable facts of your life - the mundane, the trivial, the take-for-granted minutiae that once filled every second of every day - suddenly disappear? Where does one go in such dire and unexpected circumstances? I went home, of course. Murbridge Community Message Boardfree- 500 cans of corn. Accidentally ordered them online. I really hate corn. Happy to help load. Reminder- use your own goddamn garbage can for your own goddamn pet waste. I'm looking at you Peter Luflin. Reminder- monthly Select Board meeting this Friday. Agenda items- 1) sludge removal, 2) upkeep of chime tower, 3) ice rink monitor thank you gift. Questions? Contact Hildegard Hyman, HHMurbridge@gmail.com Darcy Clipper, prodigal daughter, nearly thirty, has returned home to Murbridge, Massachusetts, after her life takes an unwelcome left turn. Murbridge, Darcy is convinced, will welcome her home and provide a safe space in which she can nurse her wounds and harbor grudges, both real and imagined. But Murbridge, like so much else Darcy thought to be fixed and immutable, has changed.