Road Out of Winter

<strong>2021 winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for<br />A 2020 </strong><em><strong>The Rumpus</strong></em><strong> Book Club Selection<br /><br />Blends a rural thriller and speculative realism into what could be called dystopian noir.... Profoundly moving.--<em>Library Journal</em></strong><strong> starred review</strong><br /><br /><em>In an endless winter she carries seeds of hope</em><br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Urgent and poignant <em>Road Out of Winter</em> 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.<br /><br /><strong>Richly imagined deeply moving and unthinkably offers hope in a world that uncannily resembles ours.... Gloriously well-written. --</strong><strong><em>Ms. Magazine</em></strong>