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Joan Ashby is a character I will never forget. She is among the greatest fictional artist-protagonists I've ever gotten to know. Her journey, through intimacies and triumphs, forked roads and betrayals, will speak to many people—especially women readers. But Joan Ashby matters so much to me, though a man, because her path is ultimately toward self-actualization and it's a coming of age journey that is not a typical adolescent one. No, *The Resurrection of Joan Ashby* is a big beautiful novel about being a grown up, even while it is about the power of art.

I thought often while reading this novel of Kate Chopin's *The Awakening*, a book that hit me hard in college, but unlike Chopin, Wolas gives her modern heroine a way out and a chance to find herself again. Like the memorable Edna Pontellier, Joan Ashby is selfish and strong, brave and foolish and stubborn. But she is also resolute, even when she is deeply frustrated. I even spent a few afternoons myself in a book-induced haze because her disappointments felt like my disappointments. I felt angry with the men in her life for requiring so much from her and never seeing her for who she essentially was—even if Joan is partially responsible for her folly.

The Resurrection of Joan Ashby is a novel that gets under your skin, and it *will* shake you. It will make you think about being a mother/parent and a woman/grown up, about our adult choices and compromises, and about never giving up on yourself and what matters to you. It's also one of the best novels I've read all year.


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The Resurrection of Joan Ashby A Novel Cherise Wolas Books Reviews

The first time I read this book I didn't want it to be over. I read it again in preparation for a book club and it was even more intriguing. The characters are so vivid they seem to be real - especially Joan Ashby! And Joan Ashby's stories which are inserted in the book could be novels on their own - and some should be. The language is exquisite. Cherise Wolas spoils us for finding another book as good as this one! I hope she writes more!
Reasons to read Cherise Wolas’ debut novel THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY

It is a literary love fest. It is a book within short stories within a book. It gives you insight into the big, beautiful mind of a brilliant writer whose tales are magnetic. It flows with magnificent words that will have you rereading them as stand-alone poems. It is a story that you are waiting with bated breath to know ‘what happens’ yet you never want it to end. It is love, female force, the craft of writing, dreams, potential, family, function, dysfunction, intellect, passion, motherhood, nurture, coincidence, fate, and yes, even more.

Meet Joan Ashby, a loner by choice, who has written two short story collections to much critical acclaim. Manhattan is home and life as she knows it, as she has created it, is exactly as she wants it. Work takes precedence. Determined not to let anything get in the way… then love enters the picture.

THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY is incomparable. Reading it is beyond a pleasurable experience. I am not often a re-reader, but I feel a pull to give myself some time to then go back to this book and reread it so that I can especially enjoy the ‘book within a book’ passages again.
This book will make you stop binge watching Netflix and binge read this. There are so many books to choose from so why this one? The writing, the story, the characters are so interesting, so enthralling its likely to ignite or re-ignite people's passions to read. One of the best books I've ever read.
The story was interesting;it at times did not resonate as reality. Joan Asby was not a believable character. The story within the story part was at times too much and served no real purpose. Joan I found to be frustrating ; she viewed motherhood as a “sentence “ . She never expressed joy in her privileged life, always the whining poor me house wife/but I am a genius lament. She was her own worst enemy. For those reasons the story did not resonate. All that being said I enjoyed the book , the writing was excellent- I just thought the main character was a bit of a bore with no insight , no joy for life. ( except at the end I guess when she “ resurrected “ herself.
(Written a couple of months ago, after being lucky enough to read a galley version - and already have a kindle version lined up to re-read!)
It's 4am and there was no way I was going to sleep before I finished it, even though I'd wanted to finish it yesterday. Instead, throughout, I've found myself deliberately reading each word - I never do that, I skim quickly following the line of the story. She paints such pictures with her words - and I feel that I've just been taken on an extraordinary life's journey (I know there's a literary word for that somewhere - and which I've just googled to be bildungsroman - and I think it's nearly right - and I've never used that word before). If I could write a book, I wish it had been this one. I ADORed the short stories interspersed - have rarely felt as aware of the power of a pithy short story - will now start hunting some down. I fell in love with Joan, feel for her, wouldn't personally have made the same choices - though maybe I've made similar ones but haven't had a Daniel- or Eric-shaped problem in my life (and am grateful that my two were easier and happier). I'd love to know Vita, I might know Camille, I'm not at ALL sorry for Martin. It is an honor to be the caretaker of genius - but I think it can only be done with great love.This isn't a review of the book - it's a mini-explosion of how it's made me feel at the moment I finished it. What a deep pleasure these last few days have been immersed in this book. I feel that I need to go right back to the beginning and start it over again. THAT's how good!
Joan Ashby is a character I will never forget. She is among the greatest fictional artist-protagonists I've ever gotten to know. Her journey, through intimacies and triumphs, forked roads and betrayals, will speak to many people—especially women readers. But Joan Ashby matters so much to me, though a man, because her path is ultimately toward self-actualization and it's a coming of age journey that is not a typical adolescent one. No, *The Resurrection of Joan Ashby* is a big beautiful novel about being a grown up, even while it is about the power of art.

I thought often while reading this novel of Kate Chopin's *The Awakening*, a book that hit me hard in college, but unlike Chopin, Wolas gives her modern heroine a way out and a chance to find herself again. Like the memorable Edna Pontellier, Joan Ashby is selfish and strong, brave and foolish and stubborn. But she is also resolute, even when she is deeply frustrated. I even spent a few afternoons myself in a book-induced haze because her disappointments felt like my disappointments. I felt angry with the men in her life for requiring so much from her and never seeing her for who she essentially was—even if Joan is partially responsible for her folly.

The Resurrection of Joan Ashby is a novel that gets under your skin, and it *will* shake you. It will make you think about being a mother/parent and a woman/grown up, about our adult choices and compromises, and about never giving up on yourself and what matters to you. It's also one of the best novels I've read all year.