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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hestia Strikes a Match Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hestia Strikes a Match

Hestia Strikes a Match

By Christine Grillo

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Publication Date: April 18, 2023

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The slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and friendship in the midst of a new American civil war.

Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends against friends: The year is 2023 and the United States has collapsed into another bloody civil war. Hestia Harris is forty, newly single by virtue of abandonment for the Union cause, and her parents are absconding to the Confederacy. She is adrift, save for her coworkers at the retirement village and her best friend, Mildred, an eighty-four-year-old resident, who gleefully supports Hestia’s somewhat half-hearted but nonetheless hopeful attempts to find love in a time of chaos and disunion. Let’s Not Date a Confederate! Hestia avers as her parents put up a sign proclaiming Make Liberals Feel Sad and Mildred reminds her It’ll pass . . . It always does.

For fans of Maria Semple, Andrew Sean Greer, Ling Ma, and Gail Honeyman, Christine Grillo's Hestia Strikes a Match is an irreverent, incisive, laugh-out-loud interrogation of modern love of all kinds, in all its messy beauty. As it fills your heart to fend off despair, it asks the seemingly ever-relevant question: How do you embrace an entire life when the whole world is breaking into bits and madness?

About the Author

Christine Grillo is a writer and an editor whose short fiction has appeared in StoryQuarterly, The Southern Review, and LIT Magazine. Her nonfiction covers food systems, agriculture, and climate change, and has been published in outlets such as The New York Times, CityLab, Audubon, NextTribe, and Real Simple. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Format: Hardcover with dust jacket

Length: 400 pages

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Publication Date: April 18, 2023

ISBN: 9780374609979

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