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 Ways of Dying was awarded South Africa's prestigious M-Net Book Prize, awarded by the TV channel M-Net to books written in one of South Africa's official languages, and was shortlisted for the Central News Agency (CNA) Award and the Noma Award, an Africa-wide prize founded by Shoichi Noma, onetime president of Kodansha International.'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 Together they help each other to heal the past, and as their story interweaves with those of their acquaintances this elegant short novel provides a magical and painful picture of South Africa today. At a Christmas day funeral for a young boy Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit, cape, and battered top hat, to comfort the grieving families of the victims of the city's crime, racial hatred, and crippling poverty. In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a 'professional mourner' in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa.

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