Stay and Fight

Beschreibung

"Like Bastard Out of Carolina, ffitch's electrifying debut novel is a paean to independence and a protest against the materialism of our age." -O: The Oprah Magazine <BR><BR>"Delightfully raucous." -Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal<BR><BR>Helen arrives in Appalachian Ohio full of love and her boyfriend's ideas for living off the land. Too soon, with winter coming, he calls it quits.

Helped by Rudy-her government-questioning, wisdom-spouting, seasonal-affective-disordered boss-and a neighbor couple, Helen makes it to spring. Those neighbors, Karen and Lily, are awaiting the arrival of their first child, a boy, which means their time at the Women's Land Trust must end.<BR><BR>So Helen invites the new family to throw in with her-they'll split the work and the food, build a house, and make a life that sustains them, if barely, for years.

Then young Perley decides he wants to go to school. And Rudy sets up a fruit-tree nursery on the pipeline easement edging their land. The outside world is brought clamoring into their makeshift family.<BR><BR>Set in a region known for its independent spirit, Stay and Fight shakes up what it means to be a family, to live well, to make peace with nature and make deals with the system.

It is a protest novel that challenges our notions of effective action. It is a family novel that refuses to limit the term. And it is a marvel of storytelling that both breaks with tradition and celebrates it. Best of all, it is full of flawed, cantankerous, flesh-and-blood characters who remind us that conflict isn't the end of love, but the real beginning.<BR><BR>Absorbingly spun, perfectly voiced, and disruptively political, Madeline ffitch's Stay and Fight forces us to reimagine an Appalachia-and an America-we think we know.

And it takes us, laughing and fighting, into a new understanding of what it means to love and to be free.

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