![]() ![]() And it is a marvel of storytelling that both breaks with tradition and celebrates it. It is a family novel that refuses to limit the term. It is a protest novel that challenges our notions of effective action. ![]() 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. The outside world is brought clamoring into their makeshift family. And Rudy sets up a fruit-tree nursery on the pipeline easement edging their land. Then young Perley decides he wants to go to school. 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. 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. Helped by Rudy-her government-questioning, wisdom-spouting, seasonal-affective-disordered boss-and a neighbor couple, Helen makes it to spring. ![]() Too soon, with winter coming, he calls it quits. Helen arrives in Appalachian Ohio full of love and her boyfriend’s ideas for living off the land. "Delightfully raucous." -Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "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 ![]()
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