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Ashley Broussard
Ashley Broussard is a writer from Lafayette, Louisiana—an insurance agent by day and an aspiring novelist by night. She writes emotionally resonant fiction that explores silence, inheritance, and the fragile architectures of love.
She is the author of The Marriage Audit, a contemporary literary novel praised for its raw honesty, intimate detail, and emotional precision. With a 4.4-star average from early readers, the novel has been called “unflinching” and “quietly devastating”—a story that lays bare the quiet undoing, and possible rebuilding, of a marriage.
Her second novel, The Weight of Ash and Prayer, moves between present-day and Civil War–era Louisiana, tracing one woman’s search for the truth hidden in her family’s past. Lyrical, layered, and steeped in atmospheric detail, the novel holds a 4.5-star average and has been described as “gorgeous, immersive, and unforgettable.
Her third novel, The Suggestion, is coming soon. A provocative and intimate story of marriage, desire, and the high-stakes tension between freedom and fidelity, it continues Broussard’s exploration of emotional complexity and modern love.
When she’s not writing, Ashley Broussard is spending time with her little Broussard family—a spirited Schnauzer named Max, and a calico cat named Penny who thinks she owns the place. You’ll often find her on the porch with a cup of strong coffee, watching how the light shifts across the eaves like memory. She believes in handwritten letters, anything pink, slow mornings, and the kind of stories that leave something behind.
Ashley Broussard is a writer from Lafayette, Louisiana—an insurance agent by day and an aspiring novelist by night. She writes emotionally resonant fiction that explores silence, inheritance, and the fragile architectures of love.
She is the author of The Marriage Audit, a contemporary literary novel praised for its raw honesty, intimate detail, and emotional precision. With a 4.4-star average from early readers, the novel has been called “...
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The Suggestion
A Novel by Ashley Broussard
Releases: July 7, 2025
What if the question wasn’t what’s wrong with us—
but what if this is the truth we’ve never spoken out loud?
Set...
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A reflection on One Last Verse
There’s a question that always seems to surface in the aftermath of a difficult love story—sometimes whispered in empathy, other times asked in judgment: Why didn’t she leave? It’s a question that trails behind women like Harper, who stay longer than we think they should, who endure what others imagine they would never tolerate. It’s also the wrong question.
One Last Verse was never about a woman who didn’t know better. It’s about a woman who did—and still stayed....
At first glance, The Marriage Audit is a story about a couple on the brink—one last day, twelve structured questions, and the possibility of either repair or resolution. But beneath its calm structure is a more intimate, unsettling question: In a long-term relationship, who gets to be the main character?
For Sophia, visibility doesn’t disappear in a single moment—it’s worn down over time. In conversations gently redirected. In job offers never mentioned. In the way her grandmother’s pearl...
When Penelope asks Jack if he’d ever consider opening their marriage, it’s not a dare. And it’s not even about sex. It’s about permission.
Permission to want.
Permission to be visible again.
Permission to name a hunger before it calcifies into resentment.
One of the most misunderstood aspects of The Suggestion—and the question that often sparks the most debate—is whether the story is about desire. But the kind of desire I’m interested in isn’t transactional or erotic in a surface sense. It’s...
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