The Ash Family: A Novel
- Author: Molly Dektar
- Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 9:30:29
Synopsis
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 a 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 captivating and haunting tale,” (New York Journal of Books).
Chapters
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021 TheAshFamily Fall Chapter19
Duration: 10min -
022 TheAshFamily Fall Chapter20
Duration: 17min -
023 TheAshFamily Fall Chapter21
Duration: 39min -
024 TheAshFamily Fall Chapter22
Duration: 12min -
025 TheAshFamily Fall Chapter23
Duration: 25min -
026 TheAshFamily Fall Chapter24
Duration: 11min -
027 TheAshFamily Winter Chapter25
Duration: 27min -
028 TheAshFamily Winter Chapter26
Duration: 18min -
029 TheAshFamily Winter Chapter27
Duration: 16min -
030 TheAshFamily SpringAndSummer Chapter28
Duration: 21min -
031 TheAshFamily Winter Chapter29
Duration: 10min -
032 TheAshFamily Winter Chapter30
Duration: 23min -
033 TheAshFamily OUT
Duration: 26s