A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
A Booklist Best Book of the Year
An Amazon Best Book of the Year
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year
A Common Sense Media Best Book of the Year
Included the New York Times round-up of "8 Comics to Read This Pride Month"
"Wang masterfully adapts this storyline for contemporary audiences, seamlessly weaving questions of identity, gender, race (Ash has Chinese and Irish ancestry), and climate change into this fundamental tale of survival. Searing and radiant." –
Kirkus, starred review
"Wang (Stargazing) delivers a stunning, contemplative wilderness adventure via muted earth-tone watercolors that tackles head-on the present-day experience of living in what often feels like a time of apocalyptic change." –
Publisher's Weekly, starred review
"Wang's emotive, empathic illustrations elevate an already impactful narrative into a stupendous visual masterpiece, with and without panels, swathed in daytime California golds and chillier nighttime blues. Perfection–literary and artistic–awaits here." -
Booklist, starred review
"This book is a page-turner and readers will both worry and cheer for Ash every step of the way. Highly recommended for all middle school and high school libraries." -
School Library Journal, starred review
"Wang, who has given readers drag queen princes and medical dramas, has developed a story that is adventurous, sensitive, and realistic. Readers of graphic novels, queer fiction, nonfiction, and wilderness stories should all find something to adore here." –
Shelf Awareness, starred review
"Beautiful, complex and affirming, Ash's Cabin will prompt deep conversations about how best to support one another and our environment, at a time when the future is uncertain and peace can be hard to find."
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BookPage, starred review
"Wang communicates with breathless tension the high stakes of solo survival in the Californian wilderness, from foraging mistakes and luckless-to-terrifying altercations with wildlife to big-picture issues of climate crisis that hang like wildfire smoke over the narrative." –
BCCB, starred review
"
Ash's Cabin is a beautiful book. Jen Wang does amazing work in deftly contrasting Ash's interior journey in their relationship with a hostile external world. It's a gorgeous meditation on fear, loneliness, and building a place to feel at home in your own heart." –Trung Le Nguyen, creator of
The Magic Fish "Heart-wrenching and powerful,
Ash's Cabin sucked me in and I couldn't stop until I got to the end. Ash's story couldn't be more relevant today. I just loved it." –Tillie Walden, Eisner Award-winning creator of
Spinning "A fierce and tender story about the lengths you will go to connect in a way that matters, during a time in your life when those connections feel so hard. Timely, empathetic, and masterfully drawn, exactly what Jen Wang has always excelled at." –Kate Beaton, #1
New York Times-bestselling creator of
Hark! A Vagrant and
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands.
"Wang has updated the classic survival story for today's socially conscious and gender expansive teens with this thoughtfully wrought graphic novel that pays loving homage to treasured titles such as
Hatchet and
My Side of the Mountain." -
Horn Book Magazine
