Sorrowland
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"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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Between its prose—measured but gorgeous—and a story that feels urgent from the first page, Rivers Solomon’s third novel is more than engrossing. It is completely consuming. When we enter Vern’s world, a speculative vision of the modern-day United States, she is fending for herself in the woods, having escaped from a cult. Still just a teenager and aware that she is being hunted, she must fend, too, for her newborn twins. As her body undergoes changes that she cannot understand, gaining astonishing power, she pieces together the truth about the life she has tried to flee. With the most monstrous parts of Vern’s story, Solomon draws a topography of American injustice—of racism, misogyny, homophobia, exploitation and murderous experimentation. Vern is a uniquely brilliant, compelling protagonist, and Sorrowland will stay with you, as it should.
