Leaving Ashwood
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Author: Cynthia Kraack
Description: The Ashwood trilogy ends three decades after failure of the global economy. The big question is answered. If world leaders had the opportunity to build from scratch, what would happen? At the half point of the twenty-first century, corporate spinners say: “The vote of a shareholder is a commitment to building a better world, while the vote of a citizen is an uneducated guess.”
Reviews for the Ashwood Trilogy:
"With Anne Hartford, Kraack gives us a vivid and resilient heroine for our troubled times and beyond."
—Elizabeth Searle, author of Girl Held in Home and Celebrities in Disgrace
"A vision of the future that is familiar and chilling."
—David Mura, author of The Last Incantations: Poems and Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire
"Richly imaginative and generously plotted."
—Michael Kimball, author of Undone, Mouth to Mouth, and Green Girls
About the Author: Cynthia Kraack lives in Minnesota. She is the author of Ashwood, Harvesting Ashwood: Minnesota 2037, and Minnesota Cold, winner of the 2009 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. She completed a M.F.A. through the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Program in Creative Writing and holds degrees from the University of Minnesota and Marquette University.
Description: The Ashwood trilogy ends three decades after failure of the global economy. The big question is answered. If world leaders had the opportunity to build from scratch, what would happen? At the half point of the twenty-first century, corporate spinners say: “The vote of a shareholder is a commitment to building a better world, while the vote of a citizen is an uneducated guess.”
Reviews for the Ashwood Trilogy:
"With Anne Hartford, Kraack gives us a vivid and resilient heroine for our troubled times and beyond."
—Elizabeth Searle, author of Girl Held in Home and Celebrities in Disgrace
"A vision of the future that is familiar and chilling."
—David Mura, author of The Last Incantations: Poems and Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire
"Richly imaginative and generously plotted."
—Michael Kimball, author of Undone, Mouth to Mouth, and Green Girls
About the Author: Cynthia Kraack lives in Minnesota. She is the author of Ashwood, Harvesting Ashwood: Minnesota 2037, and Minnesota Cold, winner of the 2009 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. She completed a M.F.A. through the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Program in Creative Writing and holds degrees from the University of Minnesota and Marquette University.