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 2021 winner of the Philip K. Dick Award
A 2020 The Rumpus Book Club Selection

“Blends a rural thriller and speculative realism into what could be called dystopian noir…. Profoundly moving.”—Library Journal, starred review

In an endless winter, she carries seeds of hope

Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty—her family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now she’s been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn’t 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 cult’s 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, Stine’s vision is of a changing world where an unexpected hero searches for where hope might take root.

“Richly imagined, deeply moving and unthinkably offers hope in a world that uncannily resembles ours…. Gloriously well-written.” —Ms. Magazine

And don't miss the next literary speculative novel from Alison Stine, TRASHLANDS, coming October 2021. Adventure Dystopian Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Emotionally Gripping Tear-jerking
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enjoyed. some obvious plot lines but also well put together. Listening as I trudged through a very cold spell was particularly atmospheric. Author used similes that were character nuanced; a farmer described something using a farm animal as a comparison. I liked this plunging into their view frame. The book wrapped up well, didn't drag out too long and wasn't afraid to make cuts to characters and didn't always seek the happy ending.

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If you like Station Eleven, you will pretty much be guaranteed to like this. It's a very well written end of days story of an endless winter and people's struggles as they migrate to keep warm and have a chance to grow crops etc. Not a lot of surprises in the story itself, but it is very well told.

Slow end of the world horror

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Narration that so perfectly brings a story to life is a rare thing. This book is so vivid, so raw and full of love and fear and roughness and cold. Beautiful, brilliant, terrifying and magical.

Astonishing, painful, hopeful, good

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