The release date for the English version of 'Damnation Spring' by
Ash Davidson is Aug 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A magnificent book that explores marriage, love, and the extent a family and a community will go to save their future.
On the untamed California coast, Colleen and Rich Gundersen are raising their little son, Chub. In 1977, things have changed significantly in this logging community in the Pacific Northwest. The village has been dependent on timber for many generations, but now that way of life is in jeopardy.
Colleen practices as a lay midwife. Rich is a top dog. He must climb trees that are hundreds of feet tall for his deadly job, which is what killed both his father and grandfather. Colleen and Rich take action to secure their son's future because they want to provide him a better life. Rich coverstly blows out their savings on an expanse of old Redwoods. Desperate for a second child, Colleen objects to the logging company's use of herbicides, which she feels are to blame for the community's high rate of miscarriages, including her own. Rich and Colleen are caught up in a developing dispute that puts their family—the exact thing they are attempting to defend—at jeopardy.
Damnation Spring is an intimate, compassionate depiction of a family whose relationships are tested and a town clinging to a fading way of life, told in writing as clear as a spring-fed brook. An incredible tale of the eternal, transcendent power of love—between a husband and wife, a mother and child, and long-term neighbors. A novel that is vital to our times.