{"product_id":"book-vcml","title":"Humboldt Cut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeep within the massive redwood forests of northern California, a Black woman encounters supernatural forces while confronting disturbing truths about her family legacy in this darkly humorous novel of ecohorror.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\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 isolation to protect herself-even if it means denying herself a hopeful future with co-worker and potential love interest Henry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eWhen her godmother dies, Jas returns to Redcedar for the funeral, a logging town where her grandfather William Whipple made a living deforesting the countryside, raping and ripping 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\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 …\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eCelebrated comedy writer Allison Mick's \u003cem\u003eHumboldt Cut\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the traumatic costs of environmental destruction in this energetic horror adventure that combines the botanical terrors of Jeff VanderMeer's \u003cem\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/em\u003e and the psychological horror of \u003cem\u003eThe Only Good Indians\u003c\/em\u003e by Stephen Graham Jones with a dash of Jordan Peele.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This isn't just a debut-it's a revelation. A sensory experience that will make you forget where you are, \u003c\/em\u003eHumboldt Cut\u003cem\u003e gets under the skin and stays there.\"\u003c\/em\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eNeena Viel\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eListen to Your Sister\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50524463923504,"sku":"BDvcml","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/vcml-Square-cover.jpg?v=1769758316","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-vcml","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}