Ashland by Simon, Dan

Ashland

A MARCH 2026 INDIE NEXT PICK★ "Powerfully poetic...a testament to American virtues--and flaws."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A deeply...
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Author: Dan Simon
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Language: English
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Ashland by Simon, Dan

Ashland

$85.99 $44.57

Ashland

$85.99 $44.57
Author: Dan Simon
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A MARCH 2026 INDIE NEXT PICK


★ "Powerfully poetic...a testament to American virtues--and flaws."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)


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


In Ashland, New Hampshire, Carolyn, born of a teenage pregnancy, grows up alongside her mother Ellie, her aunt Jennie, and her cousins. Ashland is the type of place that most people plan to leave, but few do. Beauty can be found in small things--the trees in the wind, the sky's particular shade of blue, a swim in the river, love, and family. But life can often be unforgiving and solace hard to come by. Carolyn reconciles the losses in her own life with an education at Plymouth State, the local university, and then by capturing in words her world and the people who inhabit it.


Recalling the novels of Richard Russo, Paul Harding, Marilynne Robinson, and Elizabeth Strout, Ashland is a debut novel of great intensity and poetry told in the voices of many vivid characters and, through them, in the voice of Ashland itself.



Author: Dan Simon
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 02/17/2026
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9798889661672


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/02/2026
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2025

About the Author
Simon, Dan: - Dan Simon is the founder and editor-in-chief of Seven Stories Press. Ashland is his debut novel. He lives in New York and New Hampshire.

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