{"product_id":"hemlock-1","title":"Hemlock","description":"Town \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 | Debutiful's Best Debut Books of the Year (So Far)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished, in this queer Gothic novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":54204465840466,"sku":"9780316588195","price":31.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_c3147e4f-3be5-4e2e-932a-2fc6e1000262.jpg?v=1786107777","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/hemlock-1","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}