Book 2 Post 1


Road Out of Winter: Post 1


When I started Road Out of Winter, I wasn’t really sure what to expect. The description seemed rather vague, and I honestly don’t think the blurb does it justice. As it happens, Ohio is experiencing a perpetual winter. Wil is a 22-year-old marijuana farmer living alone and doing her best to survive the conditions. About a quarter of the way through the book, we have only really met characters. Lisbeth is a member of The Church and bends to the will of her parents to please them and the establishment. She runs from the winter early into the book, but I am anxious to see if she makes a return. Lisbeth is replaced as Wil’s closest confidant by Grayson, whose parents left after the onset of the winter and has now taken up residence in Wil’s house. The Pumpkin King sells at the flea market and does a deal with Wil to trade pumpkin seeds for a warming light from her farm. Most recently, she met Dance, a high school dropout who was affected by the gas station explosion in town that occurred while citizens were waiting for water. Together Wil, Grayson, and Dance are beginning to embark on a journey to California to find Wil’s mother and Lobo--her mom’s boyfriend and the one responsible for the marijuana farming origin story. 


Ultimately, I think I would like to learn more about the potential effects of climate change from this book. I originally picked it because I wanted to relive my glory years of 5-7th grade when I was consuming dystopian novels like they were the only thing keeping me going. Now that I know it is clearly focused on what climate change can do to our functioning as a society, I am incredibly intrigued. While I can always hear about climate change in an academic setting, I think it is more interesting to see an example and the consequences of our actions come to fruition--at least fictionally. I don’t know if I’ll be satisfied with what the book teaches me because it is quite short and I can’t imagine how flushed out the details will actually be. Perhaps I can just settle for it making me feel even the tiniest bit nostalgic over dystopian novels.

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