Joseph Conrad once wrote, “My task…is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see.” Goetz does all of that and more in ASHKETTLE CRAZY—she makes you care, care desperately about these three brothers, their love and support for one another, and their heroic effort to transcend the terrors inflicted upon them. Read the first page and you won’t stop until you reach the last. — Dan Bronson