Ashland

★ “Powerfully poetic...a testament to American virtues—and flaws.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

A deeply moving family story unfolding in richly evocative prose during the final decades of the American century, Ashland is a book of metamorphoses—of the dance between permanence and transformation.

The story takes place in Ashland, New Hampshire, a former mill town in the lakes region, and is told in six voices, among them Carolyn, a twenty year old writer at a...