It’s a hypnotic, often chilling depiction of the hard-won triumph of queer love and life over those who demonize both. Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon(Goodreads Author) 3.82 Rating details 8,696 ratings 1,943 reviews Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised - flees for the shelter of the woods.

It is a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction.

Here, monsters arent just individuals, but entire nations. Over the next four years, while Vern heals from the trauma of Cainland and searches for a childhood friend who escaped before she did, she’s haunted by a specter she calls “the fiend” and her body transforms into something monstrous. Rivers Solomons Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. When 15-year-old Vern, an albino intersex Black girl, is impregnated by the cult leader, she decides to make her escape, hiding out in the surrounding forest where she gives birth to twins Howling and Feral. of Sorrowland, a group of Black Americans have built Cainland, a separatist colony that began as a refuge from white capitalism but has developed into a cult with its own systems of oppression based in Christian ideals about gender and sexuality. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Unabridged, 12 hours and 2 minutes, Audiobook, 13 pages. Award-winning speculative fiction writer Rivers Solomon’s latest is a dark and atmospheric examination of the violence done against Black, queer and female bodies in a white supremacist and patriarchal society. Sorrowland (Audiobook) Published May 4th 2021 by Macmillan Audio.

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