2021 winner of the Philip K. Dick Award
A 2020 The Rumpus Book Club Selection
тАЬBlends a rural thriller and speculative realism into what could be called dystopian noirтАж. Profoundly moving.тАЭтАФLibrary Journal, starred review
In an endless winter, she carries seeds of hope
Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and povertyтАФher family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now sheтАЩs been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesnтАЩt return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter.
With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, she begins a journey, determined to start over away from Appalachian Ohio. But the icy roads and strangers hidden in the hills are treacherous. After a harrowing encounter with a violent cult, Wil and her small group of exiles become a target for the cultтАЩs volatile leader. Because she has the most valuable skill in the climate chaos: she can make things grow.
Urgent and poignant, Road Out of Winter is a glimpse of an all-too-possible near future, with a chosen family forged in the face of dystopian collapse. Both gripping and lyrical, StineтАЩs vision is of a changing world where an unexpected hero searches for where hope might take root.
тАЬRichly imagined, deeply moving and unthinkably offers hope in a world that uncannily resembles oursтАж. Gloriously well-written.тАЭ тАФMs. Magazine
And don't miss the next literary speculative novel from Alison Stine, TRASHLANDS, coming October 2021.
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