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The Ash Family

By Molly Dektar

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The Ash Family

By Molly Dektar

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When a young woman leaves her family to join a secret off-the-grid community headed by an enigmatic leader, she discovers that belonging comes with a deadly cost, in this “stunning debut,” (The New Yorker) “perfect for fans of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and the film Martha Marcy May Marlene” (Booklist, starred review). At nineteen, Berie encounters a seductive and mysterious man at a bus station near her home in North Carolina. Shut off from the people around her, she finds herself compelled by his promise of a new life. He ferries her into a place of order and chaos: the Ash Family farm. There, she joins an intentional community living off the fertile land of the mountains, bound together by high ideals and through relationships she can’t untangle. Berie—now renamed Harmony—renounces her old life and settles into her new one on the farm. She begins to make friends. And then they start to disappear. “An excellent debut, Molly Dektar probes life in a cult with a masterful hand, excavating the troubled mind of a young woman,” (Publishers Weekly). The Ash Family explores what we will sacrifice in the search for happiness, and the beautiful and grotesque power of the human spirit as it seeks its ultimate place of belonging. A evocative literary novel of cult recruitment, belonging, and survival The Ash Family is “a captivating and haunting tale” (New York Journal of Books).
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2020-04-07
Publication Date:
2020-04-07
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1501144871
ISBN13:
9781501144875
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
272 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
211 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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