Author Talk with Miciah Bay Gault

Join us Wednesday, September 23 at 4 p.m. at West Falmouth Library to meet Miciah Bay Gault for an author talk and special opportunity to purchase a signed copy of The Nobody Code, in partnership with Eight Cousins Bookstore.

A spellbinding novel steeped in New England folklore following a woman who leaves her marriage to uncover who’s punishing her for the crimes of her adolescence—for fans of Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods and Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You.

One fateful night in the 1990s, Dinah, a small-town Vermont teen, sneaks out on a mission to jump on the neighbor’s forbidden trampoline. There she comes upon a handsome, seductive boy named Rex, who leads a group of underground vigilante teenagers who call themselves “Nobody.” Dinah falls under Rex’s sway and joins the group. She’ll do anything to impress him, even when it’s dangerous. After an incident orchestrated by Rex results in steep repercussions for herself and others, Dinah leaves the town and her adolescent years behind.

Now, twenty years later, Rex has long vanished. Dinah is married with a baby and a job at the local zoo. But she is not at peace, and it seems as if someone from the past won’t let her go quietly. When mysterious clues start appearing, animals at the zoo go missing, and an old conspirator barely survives a suspicious fire, Dinah’s paranoia gets the best of her, and she takes the baby and drives back to her hometown to investigate. Although Dinah reunites with old friends, the forces out to get her make it painfully Dinah must repent and face her enemies alone.

“Gault explores coming-of-age, the power of stories, and vigilante justice in this ambitious literary mystery. . . . [She] dusts the proceedings with light mysticism . . . grounding the story’s emotional stakes while lending it added psychological depth. . . . Engrossing.”―Publisher’s Weekly