Road Out of Winter
Alison Stine
3.70 · 10 ratings · Published: 01 Sep 2020
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, Wylodine and her small group of exiles become a target for its 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. 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.
- sc-fi 4
- dystopia 3
- apocalyptic 3
- post-apocalyptic 3
- lgbtq+ 3
- climate change/pollution 3
- mystery 2
- action / adventure 2
- winter 2
- survival 2
- contemporary 2
- suspense 1
- literary fiction 1
- supernatural 1
- disaster/catastrophe 1
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- audiobook 2
- young adult 1
- book 1