Ash Davidson Livres

1977. Californie du Nord. Rich est de ces bûcherons qui travaillent au sommet des arbres. C'est un métier dangereux, dont son père et son grand-père sont morts. Il veut une vie meilleure pour sa femme Colleen et son fils Chub. Pour cela, il a investi en secret toutes leurs économies dans un lot de séquoias pluricentenaires. Mais lorsque Colleen, qui veut avoir un deuxième enfant malgré de précédentes fausses couches, se met à dénoncer la compagnie d'abattage pour l'usage d'herbicides responsable selon elle de nombreuses malformations chez les enfants, le conflit s'invite au coeur de leur couple. Un premier roman âpre et dense.

Colleen and Rich Gundersen are raising their young son, Chub, on the rugged California coast. It's 1977, and life in their Pacific Northwest logging town isn't what it used to be. Colleen is an amateur midwife. Rich is a tree-topper, a dangerous job that requires him to scale trees hundreds of feet tall-and a job that both his father and grandfather died doing. Colleen and Rich both want a better life for their son, but as each takes steps to assure his future, they find themselves on opposite sides of a budding conflict that threatens the very thing they are trying to protect: their family. Told in prose as clear as a spring-fed creek, Damnation Spring is an extraordinary story of the transcendent, enduring power of love-between husband and wife, mother and child, and within a tight-knit community on the brink. An essential novel for our times.