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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.
We Are Unprepared
Meg Little Reilly
This book is dedicated to the wild places worth protecting.
And to Dan, with whom I want to explore them all.
Contents
WE ARE UNPREPARED READERS GUIDE
Isolé—(French) / EE-zo-LAY / adj.: isolated, remote, lonely.
Isole—(English) / i-sol / n.: rural town in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Population: 6,481.
IT WOULD BE narcissistic to assume that the earth conjured a storm simply to alter the course of my life. More likely, we’d been poisoning this world for years while ignoring the warning signs, and The Storm wasn’t so much a cosmic intervention as it was a predictable response
