Road Out of Winter, Alison Stine
Road Out of Winter, Alison Stine
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Road Out of Winter

Author: Alison Stine

Narrator: Brittany Pressley

Unabridged: 9 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2020


Synopsis

2021 winner of the Philip K. Dick Award
A 2020 The Rumpus Book Club Selection

“Blends a rural thriller and speculative realism into what could be called dystopian noir…. Profoundly moving.”—Library Journal, starred review

In an endless winter, she carries seeds of hope

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, 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.

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. Both gripping and lyrical, Stine’s vision is of a changing world where an unexpected hero searches for where hope might take root.

“Richly imagined, deeply moving and unthinkably offers hope in a world that uncannily resembles ours…. Gloriously well-written.” —Ms. Magazine

And don't miss the next literary speculative novel from Alison Stine, TRASHLANDS, coming October 2021.

About Alison Stine

Alison Stine grew up in rural Ohio and now lives in Colorado. Her first novel, Road Out of Winter, won the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award. Her second novel, Trashlands, was long-listed for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Justine on February 05, 2023

*2021 Philip K. Dick award winner* I've read lots of survival on the road books, and still I really enjoyed this one. The story is expectedly tense but the danger encountered doesn't quite descend into outright horror like it does in some books of this subgenre. It's more about the narrator, Wil, dis......more

Goodreads review by BJ on March 19, 2025

This is a beautifully written climate-apocalypse road novel, a quick and absorbing—if predictably grim—read. I would certainly recommend it to fans of the genre, and anyone else intrigued. Worldbuilding is both the novel’s great strength and great weakness. On the one hand, the texture, the warp and......more

Goodreads review by Oleksandr on April 29, 2021

This is a creeping apocalypse travel story. It won Philip K. Dick Award (2021) and I read is as a Buddy read in April 2021 at SFF Hot from Printers: New Releases group. The story starts with an introduction of our protagonist, small by wiry Wylodine, or Wil for short. She is jus out of school and sh......more