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Rivers Solomon

Sorrowland

  • Sorrowland

  • "A wonderland of fantastical and frightening, magical and real." Marlon James
    "A fantastical, fierce reckoning... Sorrowland is gorgeous." Roxanne Gay
    "Dark, magical and incredibly satisfying." Independent
    "An exhilarating journey to the outer limits of science fiction." Guardian.

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    Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and raises them
    away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong - not with
    them, but with her own body. It's changing, it's itching, it's stronger, it's... not
    normal.


    To understand her body's metamorphosis, Vern must investigate not just the
    secluded religious compound she fled but the violent history of dehumanization,
    medical experimentation, and genocide that produced it. In the course of
    reclaiming her own darkness, Vern learns that monsters aren't just individuals,
    but entire histories, systems, and nations.


    Sorrowland is a memorable work of Gothic fiction that wrestles with the tangled
    history of racism in America and the marginalisation of society's undesirables. It
    is a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in
    American fiction.

Rivers Solomon is the author of An Unkindness of Ghosts, winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award for best independently published novel, and The Deep, a novella written in collaboration with Daveed Diggs and the rap group clipping., which was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Award and a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Goodreads Choice literary awards. Faer writing has been featured in Black Warrior Review, The New York Times, Guernica, Best American Short Stories and elsewhere. Originally from Turtle Island, fae currently lives in London with faer family.

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