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SUMMARY:ASHLAND Book Talk and Signing
DESCRIPTION:Join The Briar Patch at BookSpace for a celebration of Dan S
 imon’s new novel ASHLAND. Dan will be in conversation with Maine write
 r Judson Merrill about his debut novel\, writing and more. Join us!\n\n\
 n\nABOUT DAN SIMON: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.\n\n\n\nABOUT ASHLAND:A deeply moving family story unfolding 
 in richly evocative prose during the final decades of the American centu
 ry\, Ashland is a book of metamorphoses—of the dance between permanenc
 e and transformation.The story takes place in Ashland\, New Hampshire\, 
 a former mill town in the lakes region\, and is told in six voices\, amo
 ng them Carolyn\, a twenty year old writer at a turning point in her lif
 e\; Gordon\, who arrives in Ashland in the twilight of his years\; Andy\
 , a local boy\; Geoff\, Carolyn's writing teacher at Plymouth State\; an
 d Edith\, Gordon's wife\, who is inadvertently Carolyn's spiritual guide
  and friend. Then there is Jennie\, Carolyn's aunt\, who seems to offer 
 her a model for how to live. But things aren't always what they seem\, a
 nd Carolyn must discover her own rules and make her own way.
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LOCATION:48 Columbia Street
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