Binding: Paperback
Description: A TIME 100 Must - Read Book of 2021 A New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2021 The Stonewall Book Award winner of 2022 Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR The New York Public Library Publishers Weekly and more! A triumphant genre - bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction. Vern seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised flees for the shelter of the woods. There she gives birth to twins and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the forest Vern is a hunted woman. 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. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family Vern has to face the past and more troublingly the future outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering not only the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history of America that produced it. Rivers Solomon's Sorrowland is a genre - bending work of gothic fiction. Here monsters aren t just individuals but entire nations. This is a searing seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold unignorable voice in American fiction.
Title: Sorrowland A Novel
Author(s): Solomon Rivers
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250849267
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/3/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction