A modern, queer take on an unconventional Appalachian family. Touches on politics, pipelines, class tensions, materialism, and how the government punishes poverty… but never loses the essential story of how very different characters form a bond between one another, uniting against the world. Each chapter shifts you into a different POV, which adds extra dimension to their often-barbed exchanges with one another. The theme really drives home the title (as does a brief conversation between two children about the difference between trust and loyalty): the only way to demonstrate commitment to one’s family is to stay and fight.