Hothouse Bloom - Austyn Wohlers
Austyn Wohlers
- Pages · 208 pages, Illustrations
- Publication Date · 24/09/2026
- Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Shortlisted for the�2025�Republic of Consciousness Prize�_x0007_�Indie Next Pick, September 2025�_x0007_�A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 from The Millions, Debutiful,�Garden & Gun, Atlanta Journal-Constitution�Hailed as "beautiful and strikingly original" by the New York Times, Hothouse Bloom is a modern-day pastoral about art, solitude, and self.�In the vein of Rachel Cusk, Han Kang, and Clarice Lispector, Hothouse Bloom follows a young woman who renounces her painting career and all her human relationships to become one with her late grandfather's apple orchard. She succeeds, for a time, but her idyll is interrupted by an old friend's arrival and the hard demands of turning a profit. As the outside world invades in the form of pickers, contractors, neighbors, and pomologists, what had begun as a renunciation becomes a new obsession, consuming her much the way an apple might oxidize and rot. Painterly, strange, and razor-sharp, Hothouse Bloom announces Austyn Wohlers as a singular new talent in American fiction.
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