Damnation Spring

• Author: Ash Davidson

About Book

• isbn: 9781472286635
• GoodReads Rating: 3.9

Condition & Size

• Size: Format C (Large Format 138x216/156x234mm)
• Book Type: Paperback
• CAI Condition Score: 7/10
• CAI Condition Description: Very Good
• Observations: Pen On Cover Page

Summary

🎧Listening Length = 15 hours and 39 minutesNamed a Best Book of 2021 by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, this "glorious" novel (The New York Times) transports listeners to a 1970s Pacific Northwest logging town, where the Gundersens cope with the slow loss of their way of life. "Exquisitely narrated" by an ensemble cast, "this heartbreaking yet hopeful story is a must-listen" (AudioFile).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 talla job that both his father and grandfather died doing. Colleen and Rich want a better life for their sonand 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 lovebetween husband and wife, mother and child, and longtime neighbors. An essential novel for our times.