Madeline ffitch appears for a reading and signing event this evening at Third Place Books Ravenna. RACHELLE ABELLAR
No matter what that Hillbilly Elegy guy says, not everyone who lives in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains is a laid-off coal miner yearning for the companies to befoul the schoolyards with coal dust again.
In fact, when fracking took off in the early aughts, activists living in small towns and on reservations protested the fossil-fuel infrastructure snaking through their lands. And they’re still out there today. Madeline ffitch’s first novel, Stay and Fight, is about those kinds of people living in one of those kinds of towns.
