The following is an excerpt from Hothouse Bloom by Austyn Wohlers. She is a writer and musician originally from Atlanta. Her fiction has appeared in The Baffler, The Massachusetts Review, Guernica, and elsewhere
Hothouse Bloom is about a woman named Anna who retreats to an orchard seeking solitude and communion with nature, but her old friend Jan disrupts her withdrawal, urging her back toward art and connection. As harvest looms and outsiders intrude, Anna becomes consumed by the need to make the orchard profitable, mirroring the obsessive patterns of her past. It is now available from Hub City Press.
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