{"product_id":"hemlock-paperback-1","title":"Hemlock - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished, in this queer Gothic novel.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sam, finally sober and stable with a cat and a long-term boyfriend in Brooklyn, returns alone to Hemlock, her family's deteriorating cabin deep in the Wisconsin Northwoods. But a quick, practical trip takes a turn for the worse when the rot and creak of the forest starts to creep in around the edges of Sam's mind. It starts, as it always does, with a beer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Sam dips back into the murky waters of dependency, the inexplicable begins to arrive at her door and her body takes on a strange new shape. As the borders of reality begin to blur, she senses she is battling something sinister--whether nested in the woods or within herself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHemlock \u003c\/i\u003eis a carnal coming-of-addiction, a dark sparkler about rapture, desire, transformation, and transcendence in many forms. What lives at the heart of fear--animal, monster, or man? How can we reject our own inheritance, the psychic storm that's been coming for generations, and rebuild a new home for ourselves? In the tradition of Han Kang's \u003ci\u003eThe Vegetarian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHemlock \u003c\/i\u003eis a butch \u003ci\u003eBlack Swan\u003c\/i\u003e and a novel of singular style, with all the edginess of a survival story and a simmering menace that glints from the very periphery of the page.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102222880991,"sku":"9780316607674","price":35.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6_qolA-dzD9780316607674.webp?v=1781079171","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/hemlock-paperback-1","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}