Acclaimed author Miciah Bay Gault will return to Northshire to discuss her latest - 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.

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 clear: Dinah must repent and face her enemies alone.

“The Nobody Code is that rare feast: a novel that astonishes on every page, twists and turns with wildness, beauty, and delight, and makes you, ultimately, question the stories you’ve been told about your life. A mystery that is also about adolescence, fairy tales, friendship, and love; I read this book with wonder and pleasure and finished it in tears—in awe of this strange, sublime, and haunting masterpiece.”— Robin MacArthur, author of Half Wild

MICIAH BAY GAULT has an MFA in Fiction from Syracuse. She teaches in the MFA program at VCFA and directs the Vermont Book Award. Miciah’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, LitHub, Electric Literature, the Harvard Review, and many others. She’s been a fellow at Bread Loaf, a Visiting Writer at the Vermont Studio Center, and the recipient of a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant.

MEGAN MAYHEW BERGMAN is an award-winning fiction writer, conservation journalist, filmmaker, and cultural critic. She serves as Director of Creative Writing at Middlebury College and Director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. She is the author of books including Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, and How Strange a Season, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Harper’s Bazaar, and elsewhere.