Target Club Pick Sept 2016: We Are Unprepared (Paperback) by Meg Little Reilly

About the Book

A novel about the next big storm, the one that changes our relationship to nature and each other. The superstorm that threatens to destroy a marriage, a rural Vermont town and the Eastern Seaboard when it hits. The destruction begins months earlier, when fear infects people's lives and spreads like a plague.

Book Synopsis

Meg Little Reilly places a young couple in harm's way--both literally and emotionally--as they face a cataclysmic storm that threatens to decimate their Vermont town, and the Eastern Seaboard in her penetrating debut novel, WE ARE UNPREPARED.

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

Review Quotes

Timely and terrifying. -Publishers Weekly

We Are Unprepared might be in the vanguard of tales that deal with the consequences of human-caused climate change. As such, it is an admirable example of the genre.- BookPage

Part environmental thriller, part exploration of marriage, this novel reveals the psychological storm that lies underneath the tranquil New England façade ready to sweep us into tribal life.-Joseph Monninger, award-winning author of Eternal on the Water

Any book group will have lots to discuss here. -Library Journal

Frightening, fascinating, all too possible.- Paula Treick DeBoard, author of The Drowning Girls

Reilly shows the costs of ignoring major problems- whether in a marriage, government, infrastructure, or the environment. -Booklist

Reilly gives us one heckuva ride... Cli-fi novels don't get much better than this.--Dan Bloom, The Cli-Fi Report
-Dan Bloom, The Cli-Fi Report

This terrifying glance into the relentless power of one superstorm...will send a literary jolt through any reader's imagination.- Redbook

An emotional and captivating journey.- Buzzfeed

An entertainingly delicious read that doubles as a sociology class.--PopSugar