Do you love to read? So do we! Join us for the NEPM Book Club \u2014 a quarterly virtual meet-up dedicated to bringing NEPM friends together to chat about new, diverse and interesting fiction.<\/p>\n
Our next meeting will be Thursday, Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. We’ll be reading “The Untended” by Mattea Kramer, who will be joining us for a Q&A.<\/p>\n
REGISTER NOW<\/a><\/p>\n ABOUT THE NOVEL<\/p>\n Casch Abbey is a waitress, single mom, and recreational boxer who falls in love twice: first with a veteran who secretly grows pot on a rich man\u2019s land in Vermont\u2019s Green Mountains, and then with a painkiller that eases her long-buried pain.<\/p>\n After her foot is crushed under the wheel of a station wagon, Casch loses her waitressing gig and goes broke \u2014 and the meds for her foot are her only source of relief. But when the drug is recalled due to outcries of widespread addiction, Casch\u2019s dependence imperils her already tenuous life, as cravings lead her into her small town\u2019s simmering netherworld.<\/p>\n Intimate and exhilarating, “The Untended” will upend your every assumption about who is a hero and who is worthy of love.<\/p>\n