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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001 TheAshFamily IN
Duration: 15s -
002 TheAshFamily Dedication
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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