MOLLY DEKTAR is from North Carolina and lives in Brooklyn. A graduate of Harvard College, she attended Brooklyn College for her MFA. The Ash Family is her first novel.

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2019 by Molly Dektar

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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition April 2019

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Interior design by Carly Loman

Cover Design by David Litman

Cover Photograph by Ryan McGinley

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Dektar, Molly, author.

Title: The Ash family / Molly Dektar.

Description: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018011339 | ISBN 978150114468 (hc) | ISBN 9781501144875 (tp)

Subjects: LCSH: Communal living—Fiction. | Missing persons—Fiction. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction

Classification: LCC PS3604.E388 A84 2019 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

ISBN 978-1-5011-4486-8

ISBN 978-1-5011-4488-2 (ebook)