![]() ![]() When a tense relationship from her past barrels into her present with new information and research into the hidden tactics of her husband’s industry, Colleen is torn between her longing for more children and her sincere desire to not undermine Rich’s vocation.Īs the chapters unfold, switching between narrators in time-stamped journal entries, readers enter into a tale of spousal infidelity replete with dramatic irony, as both characters keep secrets and withhold truths. In her work as the community midwife, she begins to question whether the logging industry’s use of herbicide is associated with the ever-increasing number of miscarriages, stillbirths, and birth defects among her neighbors. Colleen, another narrator, is his considerably younger wife who has struggled with multiple seemingly inexplicable miscarriages. Rich, one of the primary narrators, is a fifty-something, fourth-generation logger willing to use his lifelong knowledge of the forest to scale redwoods. Told through the perspective of numerous narrators, this panoramic narrative offers its readers an intimate look at what it means to care for one’s family, one’s community of neighbors, and the natural world – and the tension of doing so when those priorities collide. ![]() ![]() Beginning near the end of summer in 1977 and chronicling the following twelve months, Ash Davidson’s debut novel Damnation Spring explores the Northern California logging industry and the generations of residents it has affected. ![]()
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