Hothouse Bloom - Wohlers, Austyn
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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. Anna arrives at the orchard with the intention to abjure social life, deverbalize her experience, and adjust her consciousness to the rhythms of the trees. She succeeds, for a time, until the arrival of her old friend Jan, nomadic and lively and at work on a book about the painter Charles Burchfield. Alarmed by her isolation and declining health, he tries to get her painting…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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. Anna arrives at the orchard with the intention to abjure social life, deverbalize her experience, and adjust her consciousness to the rhythms of the trees. She succeeds, for a time, until the arrival of her old friend Jan, nomadic and lively and at work on a book about the painter Charles Burchfield. Alarmed by her isolation and declining health, he tries to get her painting again, while Anna is determined to show him the orchard as she sees it. As the harvest approaches, the outside world descends in the form of pickers, contractors, neighbors, and pomologists. Anna realizes that the only way back to her idyllic life is to turn a profit. It becomes an obsession, much like her former in the way it consumes her, the way an apple oxidizes, might rot. Hothouse Bloom is a millennial pastoral, both painterly and critical in its ideas about art, permaculture, subjectivity, and the natural world.
Autorenporträt
Austyn Wohlers is from Atlanta and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her debut novel Hothouse Bloom will be published by Hub City Press in August 2025, and was chosen by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint as the 2022-2023 Sparks Prize winner at The University of Notre Dame. It was also a finalist for FC2's Ronald Sukenick Prize. Her other writing has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review, Guernica, Asymptote, and elsewhere, and has been supported by Tin House and Sewanee. Also a musician, she plays in the psychedelic pop band Tomato Flower, with which she has toured supporting bands such as Animal Collective and Melt-Banana, and releases ambient music alone under her name.