{"product_id":"hemlock-a-novel","title":"Hemlock: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country's Must Read Books of Winter 2026 Most Anticipated in Autostraddle, Literary Hub, and Debutiful Book Riot's Best Queer Books of January 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished, in this queer Gothic novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47603076464803,"sku":"9780316588195","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/8588\/4579\/files\/9780316588195.jpg?v=1777117537","url":"https:\/\/www.bellhousebooks.com\/products\/hemlock-a-novel","provider":"Bell House Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}