Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
27.01.2026
Verlag
Random House N.Y.Seitenzahl
352
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14,9/3,3 cm
Gewicht
430 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-64566-221-1
Jordan Peele and Chuck Tingle meet The Overstory in 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…
Jasmine 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.
When 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.
And 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. . .
Celebrated comedy writer Allison Mick’s Humboldt Cut exposes the traumatic costs of environmental destruction in an energetic, darkly humorous horror adventure that combines the botanical terrors of VanderMeer’s Annihilation and the psychological horror of The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones with a dash of Jordan Peele.
Jasmine 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.
When 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.
And 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. . .
Celebrated comedy writer Allison Mick’s Humboldt Cut exposes the traumatic costs of environmental destruction in an energetic, darkly humorous horror adventure that combines the botanical terrors of VanderMeer’s Annihilation and the psychological horror of The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones with a dash of Jordan Peele.
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Eco-horror meets family drama is an intriguing premise, but one that ultimately didn’t work for me.
Bewertung am 09.02.2026
Bewertungsnummer: 3040383
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)
The story follows Jasmine, a young woman who returns home for her godmother’s funeral. Old tensions between her brother and her former best friend quickly resurface, and after a heated argument, her brother disappears into the forests of Northern California. Jasmine and a small group set out to find him, only to realize that they are not the only ones moving through the woods. The novel tackles heavy themes such as racism, misogyny, sexual violence, murder, and the destruction of nature through excessive logging.
The narrative takes place mostly in the present, interwoven with numerous flashbacks to the recent past as well as to the period between 1940 and 1970. Certain events are retold multiple times from different perspectives. While this structure may appeal to some readers, I found that it made the story harder to follow rather than more engaging.
The writing is often lush and descriptive, filled with Latin plant names, which creates a strong sense of place. At the same time, the story is unflinchingly brutal. Any humor that the book is said to contain unfortunately passed me by entirely.
Despite its ambitious themes and layered structure, I never found the story particularly suspenseful, frightening, or emotionally gripping. The shifting timelines didn’t add tension for me; instead, they complicated the experience, especially in audio form.
That said, I wouldn’t call the novel poorly written. Its style and approach are simply not to my taste. Readers who enjoy dense, atmospheric prose and challenging subject matter may find more to appreciate here than I did.
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