“A contemporary feminist spin on the traditional pioneer novel. touchingly depicting the tangled and tenacious family bonds that develop in wild places.” This book is packed with quick banter and unforgettable, deeply complicated characters, including a soft-hearted tree-trimmer named Rudy and many a raccoon, drake, and black snake.' The narrative plays out like Winter’s Bone with a dash of screwball as the self-described “wolf pack” attempts to live off the land, and the mothers work to raise a boy without the interference of the community, however well-intended. 'The three-women trope gets a deliciously spirited spin in Madeline Ffitch’s debut novel Stay and Fight. 'Like Bastard Out of Carolina, ffitch's electrifying debut novel is a paean to independence and a protest against the materialism of our age.' And it takes us, laughing and fighting, into a new understanding of what it means to love and to be free.įinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizeįinalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novelįinalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian FictionĪ Most Anticipated Book of July at The New York TimesĪ Book to Read in July at debutiful and A. 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.Ībsorbingly 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 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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