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PRE-ORDER: Releases January 20th, 2026
Local Pick Up in Portland, Oregon
A woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished, in this queer Gothic novel.
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.
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.
Hemlockis 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'sThe Vegetarian,Hemlockis a butchBlack Swanand 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.
Format: Hardcover
Published : January 20, 2026
Pages: 304
ISBN: 0316588199
EAN: 9780316588195
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
PRE-ORDER: Releases January 20th, 2026
Local Pick Up in Portland, Oregon
A woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished, in this queer Gothic novel.
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.
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.
Hemlockis 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'sThe Vegetarian,Hemlockis a butchBlack Swanand 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.
Format: Hardcover
Published : January 20, 2026
Pages: 304
ISBN: 0316588199
EAN: 9780316588195
Publisher: Little Brown and Company