{"product_id":"community-board-a-witty-literary-novel-of-starting-over-finding-your-voice-and-building-community","title":"Community Board: A Witty Literary Novel of Starting Over, Finding Your Voice, and Building Community","description":"The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics deliversa wise, timely, big-hearted novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community.\nWhere 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?\nI went home, of course.\nMURBRIDGE COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD\nFREE: 500 cans of corn. Accidentally ordered them online. I really hate corn. Happy to help load.\nREMINDER: use your own goddamn garbage can for your own goddamn pet waste. I’m looking at you Peter Luflin.\nREMINDER: 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\nDarcy 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.\nBut 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 bedroom, subsisting on Chef Boy-R-Dee and canned chickpeas, it is human nature to do two things: seek out meaningful human connection and respond to anonymous internet postings. As Murbridge begins to take shape around Darcy, both online and in person, Darcy will consider the most fundamental of American questions: What can she ask of her community? And what does she owe it in return?\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0062959379\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0062959379.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Conklin, Tara\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43337081356349,"sku":"BVV.0062959379.G","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0062959379-0.jpg?v=1783818919","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/community-board-a-witty-literary-novel-of-starting-over-finding-your-voice-and-building-community","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}