{"product_id":"2940169428100","title":"Stay and Fight: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wildly original, piercingly timely addition to the story of the American family\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 governmentamp;mdash;questioning, wisdom-spouting, seasonal-affective-disordered bossamp;mdash;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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo Helen invites the new family to throw in with heramp;mdash;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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbsorbingly spun, perfectly voiced, and disruptively political, Madeline ffitch's \u003ci\u003eStay and Fight\u003c\/i\u003e forces us to reimagine an Appalachiaamp;mdash;and an Americaamp;mdash;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":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179714396400,"sku":"2940169428100","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169428100_p0.jpg?v=1763682407","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169428100","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}