3.5 stars

Darcy Clipper’s husband Seth has left her for skydiver Bianca, and she moves home to Murbridge, Massachusetts to be with her parents. But her parents have left for a trial run in Arizona. So Darcy is left to her own devices, living off her mother’s Y2K supply of canned food and reading the local community board. And it slowly draws her out of her self-imposed exile as she becomes more involved in the community. Found family and all of that. 

My main problem with this novel is that Darcy’s characterization isn’t very consistent. Initially she’s of course depressed because she was blindsided by the demise of her marriage. How this plays out is that she becomes agoraphobic and doesn’t leave the house. Then one day she’s helping to find lost pets, and then she’s cured! The beginning of the novel implies that she is on the spectrum and is awkward. Well, once she leaves the house, all is solved on that front too! It’s just not realistic. 

Still, this has a fun found family element with some quirkiness, similar to Clare Pooley.