A Best Book of the Year at NPR
A Must-Read at The Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and The Orange County Register
-Steamy, smart, and hilarious.- -Oprah Daily
-Effervescent . . . Acerbically funny and tender . . . [A] supremely layered, emotionally and intellectually resonant novel for our time.- -Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe
Christine Grillo-s Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and friendship in the midst of a new American civil war.
The year is 2023, and things are bad-bad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is forty-two, abandoned by her husband (he left to fight for the Union cause), and estranged from her parents (they-re leaving for the Confederacy). Yes, the United States has collapsed into a second civil war and again it-s Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends agai
