{"product_id":"stay-fight","title":"Stay \u0026 Fight By Madeline Ffitch","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":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820987064702,"sku":"NW9781250619556","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781250619556.jpg?v=1786182133","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/stay-fight","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}