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Simon & Schuster
April 2020
On Sale: April 7, 2020
352 pages
ISBN: 1501144871
EAN: 9781501144875
Kindle: B07GNZHM2C
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Women's Fiction Psychological | Coming of Age
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).
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