{"product_id":"hemlock","title":"Hemlock","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHemlock\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMelissa Faliveno\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780316588195\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eLittle, Brown and Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e's Must Read Books of Winter 2026 Most Anticipated in Autostraddle, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, and Debutiful Book Riot's Best Queer Books of January 2026\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished, in this queer Gothic novel.\u003c\/b\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\n\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Hemlock | Melissa Faliveno | Hardcover | 9780316588195 | New | Fiction 1734592","offer_id":48168139554968,"sku":"1734592","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91FQjzbyVEL.jpg?v=1771963961","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/hemlock","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}