![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction. Rivers Solomon’s 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. In the course of reclaiming her own darkness, Vern learns that monsters aren’t just individuals, but entire histories, systems and nations. To understand her body’s metamorphosis, Vern must investigate the secluded religious compound from which she fled and the violent history of dehumanisation, medical experimentation and genocide that produced it. It’s changing, it’s stronger, it’s not normal. But something is wrong – not with them, but with her own body. Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. Source: The publisher kindly sent me a copy of this book to review ![]()
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