Four generations on moving ground. Should they speed up—or give up?
Everyone in Copperwood is trying to hold something together. No one agrees on what.
Hannah Oak came home to grieve her father. Does she dare to stay to break the pattern of pharma solutions that failed her family?
Darren Katsaros built a career fast-tracking a drug for anxious kids. Can he slow down long enough to hear them?
Tim Daniels is tired of being the lone voice for struggling families on the city council. Can he force their hand?
Over one frantic, overheated weekend, a mayor stages a compliance crisis, a corporate fixer arrives with a folder full of federal leverage, and a community hall full of teenagers challenges the narrative by building civic tools to hold the town together.
Unprescribed is a novel about generations trying to do right by each other while the ground keeps moving.
A story about the new normal and the strange, unglamorous work of staying present when everything tells you to speed up—or give up.
For readers who appreciate Barbara Kingsolver’s social justice, Ann Patchett’s tender treatment of generational change, and Kim Stanley Robinson’s near-future systems thinking.
