Book description
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…
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Having spent a lot of my reading year in darkish-fantasy mode, I branched out with Community Board, a refreshing, funny, and – yes, I’ll say it – heartwarming novel about trying desperately to go home again.
Set in a small Massachusetts town and told partly through its Nextdoor-type message board, Community Board tells the story of a young woman, heartbroken and jobless, who returns home expecting her parents’ loving comfort, only to find they’ve left town.
She holes up to nurse her grievances, finally venturing back into society via the drama and turmoil of the message board. The characters…
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