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Hilary Plum
“A searing portrait of political & personal desperation,” (Andrea Lawlor), Plum’s State Champ is a protest novel for our times.
A Jezebel Book Club Pick
A high-school state champion runner turned college dropout, Angela is working as a receptionist at an abortion clinic when a “heartbeat law” criminalizes most abortions statewide. In the ensuing upheaval, her boss is arrested for providing illegal procedures and the clinic is shut down.
Angela has never been either an activist or a model employee. But she gets why her boss didn’t follow the rules. She decides to go on a hunger strike in the boarded-up clinic, to protest her boss’s arrest and everything that’s been lost. She’ll draw on her skillset: the masochistic discipline of a runner, a history of self-destructive behavior, and a willingness to sleep on exam room tables (whose hygienic paper she uses as her diary).
Angela's protest is solitary, enraged, and a little messy, but it mobilizes a group of people around her—an ex who’s a local journalist looking for a good story, the everyday people the clinic once served, and most especially a formidable anti-abortion activist named Janine.
Lucid, strange, and deeply metal, State Champ cuts through the political rhetoric to explore the relationship between bodily autonomy and real freedom. Angela’s story is about what abortion access means day-to-day and how much we are—in ways that can transform us—responsible for one another.©2025 Hilary Plum (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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True to the lived experience of a protest . . . Plum's contributions to this canon are often funny, and pleasantly odd . . . As Angela points out, the judicial system may not be able to comprehend the ungovernable parts of our bodies and minds, to hear those ticking clocks inside us—but a novel can.
State Champ has a pulpy, political premise that is complemented by an arresting structure and complex characterization . . . Angela’s antagonists are also given humanity even as the book remains unapologetically pro-abortion rights. As I sped toward the finale, I continually weighed what I wanted to happen against what I thought would happen, and wondered what that said about my own political imagination
Impossible to put down . . . State Champ is a post-Dobbs novel we’re lucky to have.
This inventive and compelling story centers on Angela, a state running champ who has dropped out (of running, college, the BS of life more generally) and decides to protest the criminalization of abortion with a hunger strike. Strikingly composed and delivered, Plum’s latest punches high above its weight.
Revelatory and impassioned . . . Life dwindles from Angela's politicized body but not from her purpose in this sharp, incisive, and galvanizing portrait of a woman exerting her choice.
Darkly funny, in a made-you-snort sort of way . . . a short, tight novel that goes by quickly [and offers] solidarity; a look inside the brain of a less-than-perfect woman putting her body on the line to seek justice in the face of injustice. Sure, she’s technically fictional—but in times of darkness, the liberatory power of imagination is important.
An acrobatic, harrowing marathon of cut-to-the-quick prose, with a narrator who's ferocious, funny, and wise. State Champ churns with tremendous urgency that would be, and will be, vital in any era. Hilary Plum is a breathtaking talent.
Oh, this voice! Ferocious, hilarious, slippery, wise-I couldn't stop listening. Hilary Plum is one of my favorite writers working today because her curiosity about injustice and liberation is so relentless, so tender, and so alert to the fact that every single one of us is implicated in the struggle.
Plum's explosive and hilarious new political novel forges a vision of our own moment in American history that will go far in explaining the insanity of now to the future. State Champ's solitary, howling voice slashes deep down into America's naked, troubled heart. A vivid, mind-blowing and soulful book.
Where's the red line, sheeple? State Champ knows. A defiant punk voice, fucked up and bristling from defeats, growls her barbed protest song, so vivid and direct you can't tell when its ragged refusals transform into the limpid melodic rill of exit music and fight song. Hilary Plum has composed an athletic, poised, and complex fury, knowing of the body and leavened with foils, to remind us how to take a stand.
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