Djèlí Clark, author of Ring ShoutĪ furious utopia. Once I started, I could not put down Sorrowland until I reached the end. This is imaginative storytelling at its finest. The characters-bold, creative, and memorable. The writing is visceral and soul-clenching. Rivers Solomon has once again created an engrossing, emotional, and original read with pages that demand to be turned. A mother willing to defy everything and everyone-even nature itself-to protect her family. " Sorrowland delivers! Black Power cults. The arc of this book takes Vern and her babies away from civilization and then back to it - but they return changed, and they change everyone else, and this book restored my faith in our potential to transform just when I needed it most." -Charlie Jane Anders There is so much going on in this book, too: the spectre of what happens when rebellion is co-opted, our longstanding practice of using Black bodies for cruel and unethical experiments, the audacity of queer love. This is the first book I've read in ages that I'm certain I will come back to again and again, because there are rich gorgeous passages that I already know will mean more to me on subsequent readings. " Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon contains so much wisdom and insight, wrapped in an abundance of passion and fury and tenderness. 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. But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman.
There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. Vern-seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised-flees for the shelter of the woods.
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