Everything you need to understand or teach Ashes to Ashes by Tami Hoag.
As with any novel about manifestly social issues, the themes of Ashes to Ashes are not at all separate from its social concerns.
Thus, the primary importance of "family, marriage, and motherhood" in this novel is not at all separate from the issues discussed above.
The very fact that the reader is invited to empathize with Kate Conlan over her divorce and the loss of her child indicates that the novel's implicit world...