Community Board, Tara Conklin
Community Board, Tara Conklin
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Community Board
A Novel

Author: Tara Conklin

Narrator: Kristen Sieh

Unabridged: 8 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/28/2023


Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community.Where does one go, you might ask, when the world falls apart? When the immutable facts of your life—the mundane, the trivial, the take-for-granted minutiae that once filled every second of every day—suddenly disappear? Where does one go in such dire and unexpected circumstances?I went home, of course.MURBRIDGE COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARDFREE: 500 cans of corn. Accidentally ordered them online. I really hate corn. Happy to help load.REMINDER: use your own goddamn garbage can for your own goddamn pet waste. I’m looking at you Peter Luflin.REMINDER: monthly Select Board meeting this Friday. Agenda items: 1) sludge removal; 2) upkeep of chime tower; 3) ice rink monitor thank you gift. Questions? Contact Hildegard Hyman, HHMurbridge@gmail.comDarcy Clipper, prodigal daughter, nearly thirty, has returned home to Murbridge, Massachusetts, after her life takes an unwelcome left turn. Murbridge, Darcy is convinced, will welcome her home and provide a safe space in which she can nurse her wounds and harbor grudges, both real and imagined.But Murbridge, like so much else Darcy thought to be fixed and immutable, has changed. And while Darcy’s first instinct might be to hole herself up in her childhood bedroom, subsisting on Chef Boy-R-Dee and canned chickpeas, it is human nature to do two things: seek out meaningful human connection and respond to anonymous internet postings. As Murbridge begins to take shape around Darcy, both online and in person, Darcy will consider the most fundamental of American questions: What can she ask of her community? And what does she owe it in return?

About Tara Conklin

Tara Conklin was born on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands and raised in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Last Romantics and The House Girl.  


Reviews

Goodreads review by Meredith (Trying to catch up!) on December 31, 2022

A Lovely Message 3.25 stars Community Board is a quirky story about a woman trying to put the pieces back together when her world comes crashing down. She finds comfort in her hometown and learns through new friendships the value of a community, self-acceptance, healing, and growth. When 29-year-ol......more

Goodreads review by Katie on March 25, 2023

Community Board is a quirky read and I enjoyed the offbeat humor at times. But my interest level in the main character and story took a nosedive in the second half. (It's worth mentioning, many reviewers think that's when the story really hits its stride.) Regardless, I'm appreciative of certain asp......more

Goodreads review by Dona's on May 07, 2023

Thank you to the author Tara Conklin, publishers Mariner Books, and as always NetGalley, for an advance digital copy of COMMUNITY BOARD. Darcy Clipper experiences a big breakup at the devestating age of 30, so she returns home, to Murbridge, to the place that has to take her in and always remain fam......more

Goodreads review by Laura on November 17, 2022

Oof, I had high hopes for this based on the title and premise, but it REALLY missed the mark for me. Darcy's husband announces he's leaving her, so she goes to her childhood home in Murbridge, Massachusetts to regroup - but ends up becoming a recluse, subsisting on her parents' oversupply of canned......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on April 12, 2023

It was meh. It was kind of hokey imo......more