Author: Solomon, Rivers

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 7 April 2022 by Cornerstone (Merky Books) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 368 pages
129 x 196 x 27 | 258g

‘A wonderland of fantastical and frightening, magical and real.’ Marlon James’A fantastical, fierce reckoning… Sorrowland is gorgeous.’ Roxanne Gay’Dark, magical and incredibly satisfying.’ Independent’An exhilarating journey to the outer limits of science fiction.’ Guardian.

—Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and raises themaway from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong – not withthem, but with her own body. It’s changing, it’s itching, it’s stronger, it’s… notnormal.

To understand her body’s metamorphosis, Vern must investigate not just thesecluded religious compound she fled but the violent history of dehumanization,medical experimentation, and genocide that produced it. In the course ofreclaiming her own darkness, Vern learns that monsters aren’t just individuals,but entire histories, systems, and nations.

Sorrowland is a memorable work of Gothic fiction that wrestles with the tangledhistory of racism in America and the marginalisation of society’s undesirables. Itis a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice inAmerican fiction.