The Ash Family: A Novel

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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

  • 001 TheAshFamily IN

    Duration: 15s
  • 002 TheAshFamily Dedication

  • 003 TheAshFamily Fall Chapter1

    Duration: 28min
  • 004 TheAshFamily Fall Chapter2

    Duration: 14min
  • 005 TheAshFamily Fall Chapter3

    Duration: 25min
  • 006 TheAshFamily Fall Chapter4

    Duration: 28min
  • 007 TheAshFamily Fall Chapter5

    Duration: 16min
  • 008 TheAshFamily Fall Chapter6

    Duration: 25min
  • 009 TheAshFamily Winter Chapter7

    Duration: 17min
  • 010 TheAshFamily Winter Chapter8

    Duration: 07min
  • 011 TheAshFamily Spring Chapter9

    Duration: 14min
  • 012 TheAshFamily Spring Chapter10

    Duration: 24min
  • 013 TheAshFamily Spring Chapter11

    Duration: 11min
  • 014 TheAshFamily Spring Chapter12

    Duration: 12min
  • 015 TheAshFamily Summer Chapter13

    Duration: 12min
  • 016 TheAshFamily Summer Chapter14

    Duration: 22min
  • 017 TheAshFamily Summer Chapter15

    Duration: 21min
  • 018 TheAshFamily Summer Chapter16

    Duration: 22min
  • 019 TheAshFamily Summer Chapter17

    Duration: 18min
  • 020 TheAshFamily Summer Chapter18

    Duration: 09min
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