Stay and Fight: A Novel by Madeline Ffitch
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
What attracted me to this book was the aspect of self-reliance and living off the land. There was a little of that, but the three main women seemed to have no real clue how to do that successfully. The first person we meet, Helen, came from Seattle, checked books out of the library to read and reference. The other two women were from the area in Appalachia, had history of the place, but didn't seem to do much better. And do they ever argue.
At several points I considered not continuing because the three main women characters do fight. I didn't like them, nor the arguing. The book is written from different POV's one for each of the women and Perley, the child. The young boy is raised by the three women, and I loved his character and I stuck with the book.
The title of this book fits so well, the fighting then staying with each other, and my own experience with the book, staying and fighting through the discomfort. This is not the easiest book to read. Yet I found at the end of the book it paid off. I'm happy to have stayed with the book.
Book rating: 3.5 stars
Thanks to Farrar, Straus and Giroux and NetGalley for an uncorrected electronic advance review copy of this book.
book reviews, mostly.
books pulled from the shelves and new ones flying through the door. Enjoy!
Sunday, August 11, 2019
Review 57: Stay and Fight: A Novel
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