Ash Wednesday - Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke

Category: Contemporary

Narrator: Unknown

Tags: Contemporary

Jimmy is AWOL from the army, but-with characteristic fierceness and terror hes about to embark on the biggest commitment of his life. Christy is pregnant with Jimmys child, and shes determined to head home, with or without Jimmy, to face up to her past and prepare for the future. Somehow, barreling across America from Albany to New Orleans to Ohio and Texas in a souped-up Chevy Nova, Christy and Jimmy are transformed from passionate but conflicted loves into a young family on a magnificent journey. Ash Wednesday is a novel of blazing emotion and remarkable grace, a tale that captures the intensity-the excitement, fear, and joy-of being on the threshold of the mysterious country of marriage parenthood. Powerful, assured, large of heart, and punctuated by moments of tremendous humor, it represents, for Hawke the novelist, a major leap forward.