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 an intentional 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.
Thrilling and profound, 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.
My Review:
4 Stars
Ever wonder what happens inside a "commune"? You know those places that are cults, but hate to be referred to as one? This is the perfect story for your inside look into life on a self sustained commune.
Berie is destined for college, or so her mother seems to mandate. That's not the life that she had envisioned for herself though. She wants a simpler form of life. A life that she will feel good about living and that will give back to the planet she inhabits. So it seems like fate when she meets a young man seemingly offering just what she's looking for.
What she finds is a "family". A family that she can spend three days with or the rest of her life. All it takes is one simple decision on her part. Leaving behind the world she knows and giving up any and all physical possessions. At first it seems like the best choice for her, but shortly after she's decided to stay doubt begins to creep up around the edges.
A story that tests the bonds of true family and corrupt family.
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