Stony Soil Vermont

Vermont Writing

Skip to content
  • About
  • Unstitched: The Book
  • Read!
  • Find Me Here
  • Events
Search

#VermontLiteraryFiction

August, 2016, Vermont

August 16, 2016 / Brett Ann Stanciu / Leave a comment

11-years-old. Hair sun-bleached. Eyes on the bike route. Hungry for mocha mud ice cream.

Evening breeze —
water is slapping against
the legs of a blue heron.

– Yosa Buson

FullSizeRender

Stowe, Vermont

 

Posts navigation

Newer posts →

“Unstitched is both a page-turner and a primer in understanding the many complex dimensions of the opioid crisis in a rural state, where the reader accompanies the author in her own recovery and process of discovery. Ultimately, it is impossible for any of us to be totally disconnected from the impact opioid use disorder has on our communities, and it is through reading Stanciu’s skillful, compassionate and thoughtful rendering of personal stories that we can all gain valuable insight, diminish harmful stigma, and foster true healing.”

~ Dr. Mark A. Levine, MD MACP, Commissioner, Vermont Department of Health

 

“Unstitched is riveting, compassionate, topical, and one of the best books I’ve read this year. Stanciu, in beautiful prose, takes on the impact of the opioid epidemic on a small Vermont town with the gusto and suspense of a fine mystery novel, and the empathy that only a truly fine observer of the human condition could muster. Highly recommended.”
— Thomas Christopher Greene, author of The Headmaster’s Wife and The Perfect Liar, Founding President of Vermont College of Fine Arts

“Unstitched should be mandatory reading. It is a heartbreaking, raw, tender and revelatory look at addiction and its pervasive grip on ourselves, our families, our communities, and our rural towns. It is also a sublimely written narrative of transformation, vulnerability, discovery and love. This book undid me as I read—taking me into the heart of suffering, revealing my own habits, biases and fears—and then it gathered those pieces together and braided them into something new: a vision of hope, connection, possibility and healing for us all. Stanciu’s courage, generosity, curiosity and gorgeous words are the very best of guides.”
— Robin MacArthur, author of Heart Spring Mountain and Half Wild

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

Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Stony Soil Vermont
    • Join 1,099 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Stony Soil Vermont
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar