ROAD
OUT OF WINTER
Author:
Alison Stine
ISBN:
9780778309925
Publication
Date: September 1, 2020
Publisher:
MIRA Books
Book
Summary:
Surrounded by poverty and paranoia her entire life, Wil has been left behind in her small Appalachian town by her mother and her best friend. Not only is she tending her stepfather’s illegal marijuana farm alone, but she’s left to watch the world fall further into chaos in the face of a climate crisis brought on by another year of unending winter. So opens Alison Stine’s moving and lyrical cli-fi novel, ROAD OUT OF WINTER (MIRA Trade; September 1, 2020; $17.99).
With her now
priceless grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, Wil
upends her life to pursue her mother in California, collecting an eclectic crew
of fellow refugees along the way. She’s determined to start over and use her
skills to grow badly needed food in impossible farming conditions, but the icy
roads and desperate strangers are treacherous to Wil and her gang. Her green
thumb becomes the target of a violent cult and their volatile leader, and Wil
must use all her cunning and resources to protect her newfound family and the
hope they have found within each other.
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Author
Bio:
ALISON STINE lives in the rural
Appalachian foothills. A recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford
University. She has written for The
Atlantic, The Nation, The Guardian, and many others. She is a contributing
editor with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Social
Links:
Twitter: @AlisonStine
Instagram: @AliStineWrites
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