Solomon’s second book, THE DEEP (Saga Press), based on the Hugo-nominated song of the same name by experimental hip-hop group clipping, was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Award and is on the shortlist for a Nebula, Locus, and Hugo award. In addition to appearing on the Stonewall Honor List and winning a Firecracker Award, Solomon’s debut novel AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS (Akashic Books) was a finalist for a Lambda, a Hurston/Wright, a Tiptree, and a Locus Award, among others. Fae writes about life in the margins, where fae’s much at home.

Rivers Solomon is a dyke, an anarchist, a she-beast, an exile, a shiv, a wreck, and a refugee of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. – blurb from BookshopĪbout Rivers Solomon Pronouns: fae/faer or they/them Website | Twitter

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. Genre: Gothic horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Literary FictionĬontent Warnings: racism, misogyny, homophobia, human experimentation, violence, death (including child death and animal death), murder, gore, body horror, abuse (including child abuse), adult/minor relationship, rape, sexual content, medical content, cult, religious bigotry, teen pregnancy, birth, self-harm, stalking, alcoholism, police brutalityĪ triumphant, genre-bending novel, following a young woman through a nightmarish yet recognisable landscape as she attempts to create a new life for herself and her children. Which do you prefer? US cover by Na Kim UK cover by Ceara Elliot.Īdd it to your TBR: The Storygraph | Goodreads

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