Community Board -- Tara Conklin

<p><strong>The <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of <em>The Last Romantics </em>delivers<em> </em>a wise, timely, big-hearted novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community.</strong></p><p><em>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?</em></p><p><em>I went home, of course.</em></p><p><strong> MURBRIDGE COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD</strong></p><p>FREE: 500 cans of corn. Accidentally ordered them online. I really hate corn. Happy to help load.</p><p>REMINDER: use your own goddamn garbage can for your own goddamn pet waste. I'm looking at you Peter Luflin.</p><p>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</p><p>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.</p><p>But Murbridge, like so much else Darcy thought to be fixed and immutable, has changed. And while Darcy's first instinct might be to hole herself up in her childhood b