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Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (2021, MCD/FSG)
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- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “uncorrected proof; no apparent flaws”
- ISBN
- 9780374266776
- Book Title
- Sorrowland : a Novel
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Lgbt / Lesbian, African American / General, Science Fiction / General
- Item Weight
- 16.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374266778
ISBN-13
9780374266776
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18050076099
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sorrowland : a Novel
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Lgbt / Lesbian, African American / General, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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LCCN
2020-053564
Reviews
" Sorrowland , from Rivers Solomon, is a fantastical, fierce reckoning. It is the story of Vern, a young girl fleeing the only life she has ever known, her abusive husband, the cult he leads, to create a life for herself and her babies. But the tentacles of Cainland, the home she left, are always following her as she grows into a young woman and something more, something terrifying and powerful that just might allow her to break free from all that haunts her. Sorrowland is gorgeous and the writing, the storytelling, they are magnificent. This country has a dark history of what it''s willing to do to black bodies and Rivers Solomon lays that truth bare in a most unexpected, absolutely brilliant way." --Roxane Gay " Sorrowland delivers! Black Power cults. Government conspiracies. Post-Human transformations. A mother willing to defy everything and everyone--even nature itself--to protect her family. Rivers Solomon has once again created an engrossing, emotional, and original read with pages that demand to be turned. The writing is visceral and soul-clenching. The characters--bold, creative, and memorable. The action, heart-stopping. This is imaginative storytelling at its finest. Once I started, I could not put down Sorrowland until I reached the end. And then I wanted more!" --P. Djèlí Clark, author of Ring Shout "A furious utopia. Utterly compelling, brilliant and terrifying. Sorrowland seizes the history of white supremacy, racist medical experimentation, and the dream--and danger--of the commune, and gnashes it into something magnificent and truly reparative. An epic fantasy that interweaves righteous, large-scale confrontations with power, extremely sexy and moving erotic gothic horror, and exquisite, meticulous renderings of the daily life of parenting. This is a fairy tale for adults, spangled in the wreckage of the world. A gorgeous, singular, and profound work." --Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox " Sorrowland is a wonderland of fantastical and frightening, magical and real, in a world refreshingly unlike ours, yet scarily the same. At the center of this world and leaping off the page is Vern: unstoppable, unforgettable, and unlike anyone you have ever seen before." --Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf " Sorrowland is a raw, powerful, and visceral read. With Vern, Rivers Solomon has created a woman who simply side-steps her damage, and level after level of difficulty--young, Black, queer, blind, alone in the woods with two newborns and pursued by monstrous government agents--to assume her own power. Nature, joy, science, belonging, human metamorphosis, generational oppression, strength, and sheer lust for life: if Toni Morrison, M. Night Shyamalan, and Marge Piercy got together they might, if they were lucky, produce something with the unstoppable exhilaration of this novel. Sorrowland is sui generis." --Nicola Griffith Praise for An Unkindness of Ghosts "What Solomon achieves with this debut -- the sharpness, the depth, the precision -- puts me in mind of a syringe full of stars...It is not a happy book. I love it like I love food, I love it for what it did to me, I love it for having made me feel stronger and more sure in a nightmare world, but it is not a happy book. It is an antidote to poison." --Amal El-Mohtar, NPR "Rivers Solomon''s debut science fiction novel is cunning, dark, and unapologetic; atmospheric and visceral; the kind of story that pulls you in and doesn''t let go." --Shondaland Praise for The Deep "Solomon''s text stands alone as a wise, daring, touching, and important addition to the Afrofuturist canon, and one that carries its own rhythmic and melodic grace -- not to mention a wholly relevant and righteous gravity." --Justin Heller, NPR, Praise for An Unkindness of Ghosts "What Solomon achieves with this debut -- the sharpness, the depth, the precision -- puts me in mind of a syringe full of stars...It is not a happy book. I love it like I love food, I love it for what it did to me, I love it for having made me feel stronger and more sure in a nightmare world, but it is not a happy book. It is an antidote to poison." --Amal El-Mohtar, NPR "Rivers Solomon's debut science fiction novel is cunning, dark, and unapologetic; atmospheric and visceral; the kind of story that pulls you in and doesn't let go." --Shondaland Praise for The Deep "Solomon's text stands alone as a wise, daring, touching, and important addition to the Afrofuturist canon, and one that carries its own rhythmic and melodic grace -- not to mention a wholly relevant and righteous gravity." --Justin Heller, NPR, " Sorrowland delivers! Black Power cults. Government conspiracies. Post-Human transformations. A mother willing to defy everything and everyone--even nature itself--to protect her family. Rivers Solomon has once again created an engrossing, emotional, and original read with pages that demand to be turned. The writing is visceral and soul-clenching. The characters--bold, creative, and memorable. The action, heart-stopping. This is imaginative storytelling at its finest. Once I started, I could not put down Sorrowland until I reached the end. And then I wanted more!" --P. Djèlí Clark, author of Ring Shout "A furious utopia. Utterly compelling, brilliant and terrifying. Sorrowland seizes the history of white supremacy, racist medical experimentation, and the dream--and danger--of the commune, and gnashes it into something magnificent and truly reparative. An epic fantasy that interweaves righteous, large-scale confrontations with power, extremely sexy and moving erotic gothic horror, and exquisite, meticulous renderings of the daily life of parenting. This is a fairy tale for adults, spangled in the wreckage of the world. A gorgeous, singular, and profound work." --Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox " Sorrowland is a wonderland of fantastical and frightening, magical and real, in a world refreshingly unlike ours, yet scarily the same. At the center of this world and leaping off the page is Vern: unstoppable, unforgettable, and unlike anyone you have ever seen before." --Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf Praise for An Unkindness of Ghosts "What Solomon achieves with this debut -- the sharpness, the depth, the precision -- puts me in mind of a syringe full of stars...It is not a happy book. I love it like I love food, I love it for what it did to me, I love it for having made me feel stronger and more sure in a nightmare world, but it is not a happy book. It is an antidote to poison." --Amal El-Mohtar, NPR "Rivers Solomon's debut science fiction novel is cunning, dark, and unapologetic; atmospheric and visceral; the kind of story that pulls you in and doesn't let go." --Shondaland Praise for The Deep "Solomon's text stands alone as a wise, daring, touching, and important addition to the Afrofuturist canon, and one that carries its own rhythmic and melodic grace -- not to mention a wholly relevant and righteous gravity." --Justin Heller, NPR
Synopsis
A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction, 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 the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in 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. It is a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction.
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