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Summary: The Northeast Kingdom is known for its pastoral beauty — but that’s only part of the view of the region presented in Melanie Finn’s latest novel, The Underneath . Her characters exist in the brutal underbelly of rural Vermont that’s ravaged by the opioid epidemic.