Target Club Pick Sept 2016: We Are Unprepared (Paperback) by Meg Little Reilly
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br> A novel about the next big storm, the one that changes our relationship to nature and each other. The superstorm that threatens to destroy a marriage, a rural Vermont town and the Eastern Seaboard when it hits. The destruction begins months earlier, when fear infects people's lives and spreads like a plague. <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br> <b>Meg Little Reilly places a young couple in harm's way--both literally and emotionally--as they face a cataclysmic storm that threatens to decimate their Vermont town, and the Eastern Seaboard in her penetrating debut novel, <i>WE ARE UNPREPARED</i>.</b></br></br>Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in search of a more authentic life. But just months after settling in, the forecast of a superstorm disrupts their dream. Fear of an impending disaster splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage. Where Isole was once a place of old farm families, rednecks and transplants, it now divides into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools, each at odds about what course to take. </br></br><i>WE ARE UNPREPARED</i> is an emotional journey, a terrifying glimpse into the human costs of our changing earth and, ultimately, a cautionary tale of survival and the human <p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br> Timely and terrifying. -Publishers Weekly <p/>We Are Unprepared might be in the vanguard of tales that deal with the consequences of human-caused climate change. As such, it is an admirable example of the genre.- BookPage <p/>Part environmental thriller, part exploration of marriage, this novel reveals the psychological storm that lies underneath the tranquil New England façade ready to sweep us into tribal life.-Joseph Monninger, award-winning author of Eternal on the Water <p/>Any book group will have lots to discuss here. -Library Journal <p/>Frightening, fascinating, all too possible.- Paula Treick DeBoard, author of The Drowning Girls <p/>Reilly shows the costs of ignoring major problems- whether in a marriage, government, infrastructure, or the environment. -Booklist <p/>Reilly gives us one heckuva ride... Cli-fi novels don't get much better than this.--Dan Bloom, The Cli-Fi Report<br>-Dan Bloom, The Cli-Fi Report <p/>This terrifying glance into the relentless power of one superstorm...will send a literary jolt through any reader's imagination.- Redbook <p/>An emotional and captivating journey.- Buzzfeed <p/>An entertainingly delicious read that doubles as a sociology class.--PopSugar
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