{"product_id":"hothouse-bloom","title":"Hothouse Bloom","description":"Shortlisted for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize • Indie Next Pick, September 2025 • A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 from The Millions, Debutiful, Garden \u0026amp; 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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57513496412533,"sku":"9798885740883","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798885740883.jpg?v=1787220257","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/hothouse-bloom","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}