The brilliant Madeline ffitch joins the Normals Stage to present her new book Avalon, Rise, an uproarious, unabashed novel of an Appalachian town, the diverse locals who make it home, an influx of white nationalists trying to take over, and the ways in which the battle brings out our light.
Normals Presents: Madeline ffitch
4:00 pm
Presented by Normals Books & Records
Madeline ffitch
Madeline ffitch cofounded the punk theater company Missoula Oblongata and is part of the direct-action collective Appalachia Resist! Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, Guernica, and elsewhere. She is the author of the story collection Valparaiso, Round the Horn and the novel Stay and Fight, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. Her new novel Avalon, Rise is coming out this month on FSG.
