Brett Ann Stanciu -- Call It Madness

Join author Brett Ann Stanciu for a reading from her new book Call It Madness!Millennial Avah Lavoie’s crumbling relationship is the final push she needs to answer her
estranged mother’s unexpected call: her great-grandfather Opa has died. Driving north to rural
Vermont, Avah hopes to untangle a murky family history. The novel unfolds in a frigid winter,
where buried truths rise, and endings refuse to follow the script.Brett Ann Stanciu is the author of Call It Madness,
Unstitched: My Journey to Understand Opioid Addiction, and
Hidden View. Recipient of two Vermont Arts Council
Creation Grants, a 2024 Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center for the Arts, and a
2025 Pushcart Prize nomination, her writing has appeared in numerous publications.
She lives in Hardwick, Vermont, in a 100-year-old house surrounded by yellow
perennials.