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About Damnation Spring
Product Description NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times “A glorious book—an assured novel that’s gorgeously told.” —The New York Times Book Review “An incredibly moving epic about an unforgettable family.” —CBS Sunday Morning “[An] absorbing novel…I felt both grateful to have known these people and bereft at the prospect of leaving them behind.” —The Washington Post A stunning novel about love, work, and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will go to protect their future. Colleen and Rich Gundersen are raising their young son, Chub, on the rugged California coast. It’s 1977, and life in this Pacific Northwest logging town isn’t what it used to be. For generations, the community has lived and breathed timber; now that way of life is threatened. Colleen is an amateur midwife. Rich is a tree-topper. It’s a dangerous job that requires him to scale trees hundreds of feet tall—a job that both his father and grandfather died doing. Colleen and Rich want a better life for their son—and they take steps to assure their future. Rich secretly spends their savings on a swath of ancient redwoods. But when Colleen, grieving the loss of a recent pregnancy and desperate to have a second child, challenges the logging company’s use of the herbicides she believes are responsible for the many miscarriages in the community, Colleen and Rich find themselves on opposite sides of a budding conflict. As tensions in the town rise, they threaten the very thing the Gundersens are trying to protect: their family. Told in prose as clear as a spring-fed creek, Damnation Spring is an intimate, compassionate portrait of a family whose bonds are tested and a community clinging to a vanishing way of life. An extraordinary story of the transcendent, enduring power of love—between husband and wife, mother and child, and longtime neighbors. An essential novel for our times. Amazon.com Review Ash Davidson’s stellar debut novel is set in northern California during the 1970s, in a small logging community that has supported generations of working class families. It’s a book that shares a common thread with the seagoing novels of yore, books about swashbuckling sailors who risked their lives in search of adventure—and the first generation of loggers were sailors who climbed and roped the great trees like masts. But this is also a book about wives and children, and about husbands struggling to squeeze a living out of a dwindling industry. And it’s about one more thing: how our environment defines us, supports us, and how our mistreatment of the world is, in the end, the same as mistreating ourselves. There’s even more to this book, but you get the idea. It’s really good. Surprisingly good. Ash Davidson’s sentences have a gravity all their own that pulls the reader down into the story. And before you know it, you are there—in California redwood country, in 1977, living with people you’ve never thought about or cared about before. I didn’t really want to leave them. —Chris Schluep, Amazon Editor Review Named a Best Book of 2021 by Amazon, Kirkus, and BookPage “Probably the best novel I’ll read this year. It’s about work and love and characters who ring true.” —Stephen King "A glorious book—an assured novel that’s gorgeously told... Redwoods have been plundered by humans, damaged in fires and taken down in floods, but they’re also incredibly resilient. And as characters in Davidson’s graceful rendering remind us, humans are equally resilient. After great loss, they, too, can keep growing." —The New York Times Book Review "With great empathy and care, Davidson demonstrates how competing values play out against a backdrop of climate change in America." —The New Yorker “[An] ambitious debut [that] gains momentum as Davidson pulls together its foundational concepts— family, work, honor, and loyalty. Damnatio
