![]() 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. ![]() 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. The book opens with her giving birth to twins, whom she names Howling and Feral, in the woods outside the commune, after she ran away. ![]() Vern-seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised-flees for the shelter of the woods. The story follows Vern, a 15-year-old albino girl who was born and raised on a commune run by a Black separatist group. Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR, The New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly and more!Ī triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction. A New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2021 ![]()
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