Melissa Faliveno is a longtime Debutiful favorite (listen to our 2020 conversation with her). Her essay collection, Tomboyland, was one of 2020’s best debut books, and now Faliveno is debuting in fiction.
In Hemlock, Faliveno brings readers to a cabin deep in the Wisconsin woods, where a sober Sam has a sip of a beer. As the quick cabin getaway turns south, the woods around her close in, her dependence awakens, and she begins a battle she isn’t sure she can win. It’s a deeply moving book, and the more I sit with it, the more convinced I am that this isn’t just a book of the year contender, but a book of the decade contender.
Faliveno answered the recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know the books that shaped her life and influenced her book.
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