{"product_id":"humboldt-cut-a-redwood-gothic","title":"Humboldt Cut: A Redwood Gothic","description":"\u003cb\u003eJordan Peele and Chuck Tingle meet \u003ci\u003eThe Overstory \u003c\/i\u003ein comedy writer Allison Mick's darkly humorous debut eco-horror novel, as a Black woman returns home to the redwood forests of northern California, only to unearth the monsters that lurk among the trees...\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJasmine Bay is a nurse for an Oakland mental health facility, battling her own demons, caught in a spiral of suicidal despair. Estranged from her brother James and his wife Tilly, who was once her best friend, Jas has chosen self-isolation to protect herself--even if it means denying herself a hopeful future with co-worker and potential love interest Henry Lewis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen her godmother dies, Jas returns to Redceder for the funeral, a logging town where her grandfather William Whipple made a living deforesting the countryside, ripping and raping apart nature's very foundations for corporate profits. As trees fell to axes and chainsaws, so did dozens of lumberjacks, falling prey to the dangers of their job--and to the ecoterrorism of Jas's grandfather who was lynched for his crimes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd buried in the haunted woods are even more dark secrets perpetrated by Jas's family. Unnatural acts giving birth to entities made of human flesh and petrified bark, seeking to avenge the devastation that ravaged their land. It is an inheritance that threatens to consume the remnants of Jas's family, and her very sanity. . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCelebrated comedy writer Allison Mick's \u003ci\u003eHumboldt Cut\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the traumatic costs of environmental destruction in an energetic, darkly humorous horror adventure that combines the botanical terrors of VanderMeer's \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e and the psychological horror of \u003ci\u003eThe Only Good Indians\u003c\/i\u003e by Stephen Graham Jones with a dash of Jordan Peele.","brand":"Allison Mick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47611267219692,"sku":"9781645662259","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781645662259.jpg?v=1778257692","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/humboldt-cut-a-redwood-gothic","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}