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Also by Rivers Solomon:

Model Home, October 2024
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Sorrowland, May 2021
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Sorrowland
Rivers Solomon

MCD
May 2021
On Sale: May 4, 2021
368 pages
ISBN: 0374266778
EAN: 9780374266776
Kindle: B08Q7FBQ6R
Hardcover / e-Book
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Science Fiction | Multicultural African-American

'Sorrowland is a wonderland of fantastical and frightening, magical and real. At the centre of this world and leaping off the page is Vern: unstoppable, unforgettable, and unlike anyone you have ever seen before.' MARLON JAMES, Booker Prize-winning author

Vern, a Black woman with albinism, is hunted after escaping a religious compound, then she discovers that her body is changing and that she is developing extra-sensory powers.

Alone in the woods, she 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 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 dehumanisation, 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.

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