Synopses & Reviews
WE ARE UNPREPARED…
This is a novel about the superstorm that threatens to destroy a marriage, a town and the entire Eastern seaboard. But the destruction begins early, when fear infects people's lives and spreads like the plague.
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.
We Are Unprepared 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 spirit.
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"An emotional and captivating journey." Buzzfeed
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"Frightening, fascinating, all too possible." Paula Treick DeBoard, author of The Drowning Girls
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"Timely and terrifying." Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Meg Little Reilly previously worked for President Obama as deputy communications director for the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and prior to that as spokesperson at the US Department of the Treasury. She has been a communicator for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and producer for Vermont Public Radio. A native of Vermont, she is a UVM graduate with deep ties around the state. She currently lives in the Boston area with her husband and two daughters.