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Readers love the author of Vermont Im Aiken’s The Winchester County’s Little Ambulance War: Trowbridge Vermont Novel (Flare Books, 2024), recently published by Catalyst Press. The novel follows the career of an EMS worker through a 40 -year -old arc starting at Cambridge Massachusetts and closes in the fictional city of Trowbridge in South Vermont. As you try to follow the legs of others, Alex Flynn is gradually questioning who is the character in their own story. The outspoken topics of the book include: death, PTSR, public safety, state funding and emergency medicine. Undervalued topics include both gender and sexuality.

Aiken has been working over and beyond the ambulances of the 1980s, first in Boston, and then in the village Vermont, where he now lives. According to the Ministry of Health in Vermont, Vermont has some “170 ambulance agencies and first respondents, 3000 licensed Emergency Service (EMS) and over 400 suppliers certified as the first respondents of Vermont Emergency.” Rescuers are called to manage emergencies of all kinds, from inspections of welfare to fires to battles to car accidents, from abuse of substances and domestic problems to rescue skiers and flood victims.

Through the voice of the ambulance driver and the rescue worker Alex Flynn, the main character of the novel, this frugal, gloomy funny novel brings to light the bureaucracy and the difficult choice they encounter. Keep the dignity of the people who serve. Aiken gives readers with access to the front row to the world of EMS and other first responders-sweat, steam, and this accompanies long days and nights that take care of others with their most vulnerable.

Following the footsteps of his beloved father of the Boston cop, Alex Flynn trains as an EMT and spent years pursuing emergencies in an ambulance. But the man who Alex gets is far from the character who has registered. For over four decades in public safety, Alex has encountered a changing America, where veterans are left to rot on the streets, women are welcome in dangerous areas, but abusers are still walking and service providers are under intense public control while are denied the necessary resources they need.

After moving from a lively Boston to a small town of Vermont, Alex discovers an escalating feud between emergency operators and has to decide which to protect: their community or their inheritance. The novel is available in Amazon, Barnes and Noble or your favorite bookstore. See the audio book read by the author to fully experience the novel.

Praise for the Little War of the ambulance

“The war of the small ambulance of the Winchester County opens the eyes of readers to human beings and too often the problematic systems we rely on to save us. An important and unforgettable saga for people who compete to danger to save strangers like you. ” – James Grady, author of Six days on the condor

“This is literally one of the best, the most accurate books of EMS I have read. Not only is it right up to my 20 -year -old as a paramedic in both rural and urban conditions, the author nails the policy of the small town. It is a rare combination to find someone who understands both EMs, the policy of the small town, lives in the shadow of Dad from the first answer and can actually write. The characters are true to life and the dialogue fresh; Sometimes I thought I could read my own story. I will recommend this book over and over again. ” – Sarah Moore Gruver, EMT

Our group was discussing issues related to social and social services, more special access to health and emergency services. We have deepened in the systemic inequalities and fraud that have hit these systems and the tensions between the services provided by the government and the privatized-many communities have been issued throughout the country at the moment. For most of us, the “ambulance wars” were a new concept for opening the eyes, and this book strengthened our awareness of complexity. “The book club’s cookbook