- Published: 13 February 2024
- ISBN: 9781640096066
- Imprint: Catapult
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $65.00
Goldenseal
A Novel
- Published: 13 February 2024
- ISBN: 9781640096066
- Imprint: Catapult
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $65.00
“For anyone who has ever had—and lost—that rarest of gifts: a true friend. A deft, exquisite novel, one that will stay in your heart like a memory, as if it were one of your very own.” —Barbara Bourland, author of The Force of Such Beauty
“I devoured Goldenseal, enchanted by the satin prose and dialogue as smooth as cognac. I loved everything about this story of exquisite tenderness, passionate friendship and betrayal, the electric rendezvous of past and future. The backdrop is an L.A. hotel, haunted by a bygone elegance; but it’s the voices of Edith and Lacey that truly astonish. They’re still ringing in my ears, clear as a hotel fountain.” —Miciah Bay Gault, author of Goodnight Stranger
“Goldenseal is the rare novel whose style perfectly evokes an earlier era while its meaning feels wholly contemporary. Like the characters within it, we realize how hard it is to understand our lives without the wider view that only comes with time. Sweeping yet intimate, and with characters who feel as alive as our closest friends, Goldenseal is a marvel.” —Stacey Swann, author of Olympus, Texas
“Goldenseal is a savagely beautiful novel about the dangers and damages of passionate lifelong female friendship, intertwined with a brilliantly wrought elegy for the twentieth century. Hummel is a powerful writer. This book is extraordinary.” —Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner award-winning author of The Great Man and Welcome Home, Stranger