Ffitch Madeline
Ffitch Madeline - Stay And Fight A Novel - Paperback
Ffitch Madeline - Stay And Fight A Novel - Paperback
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Description: " 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 " Delightfully raucous." Sam Sacks The Wall Street Journal 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. 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. 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. 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.
Title: Stay And Fight A Novel
Author(s): Ffitch Madeline
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250619556
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/10/2020
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: " 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 " Delightfully raucous." Sam Sacks The Wall Street Journal 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. 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. 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. 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.
Title: Stay And Fight A Novel
Author(s): Ffitch Madeline
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250619556
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/10/2020
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
