{"product_id":"stay-fight-9781250619556-new","title":"Stay and Fight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Like \u003ci\u003eBastard Out of Carolina\u003c\/i\u003e, ffitch's electrifying debut novel is \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ea paean to independence and a protest against the materialism of our age.\" --\u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Delightfully raucous.\" --Sam Sacks, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in a region known for its independent spirit, \u003ci\u003eStay and Fight\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbsorbingly spun, perfectly voiced, and disruptively political, Madeline ffitch's \u003ci\u003eStay and Fight\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PICADOR USA","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67780360372514,"sku":"9781250619556-new","price":17.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9781250619556.jpg?v=1794453951","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/stay-fight-9781250619556-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}