“All the ways in which women become mothers of some sort. Is motherhood inescapably entwined in female life, a story every woman ends up telling, whether or not she sought or desired that bond; her nourishment, her caretaking, her love,… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share
“Her failure to demand her needs, losing all of her years, sacrificing herself on the altar of motherhood to a son who saved himself from eternal extinction, to a son whose desperation she had missed.” — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“Critical to my understanding of myself was that my parents may have been storytellers, but I was the writer in my family, the only… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“Joan Ashby is one of our most astonishing writers, a master of words whose profound characters slip free of the page...” — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“In the stories Joan wrote when she was Daniel’s age, she had murdered her characters, while Daniel had his one character facing down dangers and searching for answers. The genesis of the stories was clear to her: because Daniel felt loved and safe within his family, he could imagine himself taking risks, venturing out onto figurative limbs. He was lucky,… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share
“In the park, the bright colors of the children's clothing, the timbre of their young voices, lowered and darkened.” — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“The middle seat holds an old woman, teeny, not much bigger than a doll. She is creased and wrinkled and rheumy-eyed. Her eyes, though,… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“All the ways in which women become mothers of some sort. Is motherhood inescapably entwined in female life, a story every woman ends up telling, whether or not she sought or desired that bond; her nourishment, her caretaking, her love, needed by someone standing before her, hands held out, heart demanding succor, commanding her not look away, but to dig… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share
“We were young, and some of us were beautiful, and others of us were brilliant, and a few of us were both. Citizenship demanded… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“Thank you to Steve Iwanski and Turnrow Books for this fantastic review of THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY!! Cherise Wolas' debut novel is a… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“Her failure to demand her needs, losing all of her years, sacrificing herself on the altar of motherhood to a son who saved himself… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“Joan thinks then that writers have infinite choices and mothers nearly no choice at all.” — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“She wonders when and how she decided it was sinful to heed her own destiny” — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
