In Brett Ann Stanciu’s newly released novel Call It Madness, the millennial heroine, Avah Lavoie, believes her life has reached a dull dead-end. Then, unexpectedly, her estranged mother phones with news of her great-grandfather’s death. Avah sets out in her Toyota Matrix for an inherited ramshackle Vermont house. She’s fiercely determined to understand how her life was shaped by buried family secrets: a sawmill accident, a mother who overdosed, a missing father.

Parts of Call It Madness were written right here in the Craftsbury Public Library.  Brett Stanciu is a local author and a library patron,  and she will be leading a discussion of her book at the library on Friday, August 7 at 5pm.  The library has numerous copies of the book available for loan, and the book is available for purchase at the Galaxy Bookshop as well as most other places.

For more information contact the library at 802-586-9683.