Community Board Hardback

"Community Board" hardback by Tara Conklin. Brand New

"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 & unexpected circumstances?

I went home, of course.

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 & provide a safe space in which she can nurse her wounds & harbor grudges, both real & imagined.

But Murbridge, like so much else Darcy thought to be fixed & immutable, has changed. And while Darcy’s first instinct might be to hole herself up in her childhood bedroom, subsisting on Chef Boy-R-Dee & canned chickpeas, it is human nature to do two things: seek out meaningful human connection & respond to anonymous internet postings."