{"product_id":"hemlock","title":"Hemlock","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Hemlock is a propulsive, atmospheric story of ghosts, monsters, and transformation, with a sharp eye for gender dynamics and the queer experience in rural places. This tension-filled exploration of an inescapable haunting is a nuanced story of addiction and inheritance.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-- Booklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished, in this queer Gothic novel.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSam, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHemlock is 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 The Vegetarian, Hemlock is a butch Black Swan 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMelissa Faliveno\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the debut essay collection \u003cem\u003eTomboyland\u003c\/em\u003e, named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, Oprah Magazine, Electric Literature, and Debutiful, and recipient of a 2021 Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement from the Wisconsin Library Association. Her writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eEsquire, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Ms. magazine, Bitch magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/em\u003e, among others, and in the anthologies \u003cem\u003eSex and the Single Woman\u003c\/em\u003e and the forthcoming \u003cem\u003eHit Repeat Until I Hate Music\u003c\/em\u003e. Born and raised in small-town Wisconsin and a longtime resident of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, she teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina and lives in the woods outside Chapel Hill.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melissa Faliveno","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914918564125,"sku":"9780316588195","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780316588195.jpg?v=1770232209","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/hemlock","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}