![]() ![]() It is a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction. Here, monsters aren’t just individuals, but entire nations. Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future―outside the woods. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes. Their debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts, appeared on the Stonewall Honor Books List, won a Firecracker Award, and was a finalist for Lambda Literary, Hurston/Wright Legacy, and Locus awards. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.īut even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Rivers Solomon writes about life in the margins, where they are much at home. Vern―seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised―flees for the shelter of the woods. A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction ![]()
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