"Call It Madness" with Author Brett Ann Stanciu

Join author Brett Ann Stanciu for a reading from her new novel Call It Madness and a talk about the influence of place in Vermont fiction.

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.