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. It is a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction.Vern-seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised-flees for the shelter of the woods. Here, monsters aren’t just individuals, but entire nations. Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future―outside the woods.

There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.īut even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Vern―seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised―flees for the shelter of the woods. A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction

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