The Ash Family
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Molly Dektar is also the author of The Ash Family. A graduate of Brooklyn College's MFA program, she is the recipient of the Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Her fiction has been published in The Yale Review, n+1, Fence, Harvard Review, and The Sewanee Review. She lives in Queens.
The Ash Family floored me. With stirring insight, nuanced emotion, and prose as beautiful as poetry, this magnificent novel delves into essential questions of need and desire, love and family, success and sacrifice. Molly Dektar is a wholly original writer, and we need her vision and voice more than ever.
-- "Bret Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This"In The Ash Family, the brilliant Molly Dektar explores and explodes the lines between ally and enemy, between collaboration and sabotage, between blessing and threat. Dektar evokes the irresistible beauty of the wilderness, and then exposes its ravaging harshness. This mesmerizing, terrifying book asks the hard questions: What should humankind do in the face of environmental catastrophe? Where does the individual end and the communal begin? A powerful tale by a powerful new writer.
-- "Helen Phillips, author of Some Possible Solutions and The Beautiful Bureaucrat"In her excellent debut, Dektar probes life in a cult with a masterful hand...Dektar's eloquent, often poetic prose draws readers into this disturbing, powerful novel.
-- "Publishers Weekly"
