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Stick Season.

November 15, 2022 / Brett Ann Stanciu / 2 Comments

On this sunny November morning, before our first expected snow, a few lines from Robert Frost:

Not yesterday I learned to know
     The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow,
But it were vain to tell her so,
     And they are better for her praise.

“My November Guest”

Pub date June 30, 2026.

  • Pre-order at Hardwick’s Galaxy Bookshop here, or the Big A here.

“Caught between the grindstones of poverty and addiction, her people are battered and fragmented yet hold tightly the better flickers of the human heart. At turns caustic and darkly comic, Call It Madness never loses sight of the decay within the veneers of social respectability, and how slender the chasm is between hope and despair. A haunting and visceral novel.”

            –Jeffrey Lent, author of A Slant of Light and In the Fall

“Stanciu is Vermont through and through. The same can be said of her first novel…”
– Seven Days

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