Alison Stine
Ohio University alum Alison Stine’s new book, Road Out of Winter, is just out from MIRA Books (HarperCollins).
Stine earned a Ph.D. in English in 2013 from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University.
Set during an endless winter in an Appalachia ravaged by climate change, Road Out of Winter is about a young marijuana farmer who attempts to escape a cult and the deteriorating society around her, with the found family she rescues along the way.
“Set during an endless winter in an Appalachia ravaged by climate change, Road Out of Winter is about a young marijuana farmer who attempts to escape a cult and the deteriorating society around her, with the found family she rescues along the way.”
Stine’s website provides this description of the book:
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 to start over, away from Appalachian Ohio. But the icy roads and strangers hidden in the hills prove treacherous. After a harrowing encounter with a violent cult, Wil and her small group become a target for the cult’s 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. With the gripping suspense of The Road and the lyricism of Station Eleven, Stine’s vision is of a changing world where an unexpected hero searches for a place hope might take root.
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