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Ash That Doesn't Rise

Ash That Doesn't Rise

Hearns, Cecil H.

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798185648124
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 5 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Set in 1965. Frank Owens moves with a rhythm all his own - quiet, stubborn, and impossible to translate. Misunderstood everywhere he goes, he carries music no room knows how to hear.

He holds one word he shouldn't - seriousness - carrying it like a key that might fit. He keeps moving because movement is the only language he has, walking into each new room with the same belief: maybe this door will open.

Told in clipped, unsentimental prose, Ash That Doesn't Rise is a raw outsider novel about misread signals, loneliness without self-pity, and the quiet dignity of a man who refuses to disappear. A road novel, a psychological novel - a portrait of a life that doesn't rise, doesn't resolve, and doesn't fit into anyone's story but its own.

Just ash that doesn't rise.

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