Sorrowland
Cerebral
Emotional
Timeless

Sorrowland A Novel

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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3 stars
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4 stars
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4.5 stars
Aug 5, 2023
Powerful
Timeless
Emotional
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3.5 stars
Mar 1, 2023
This review contains a spoiler
Cerebral
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4.5 stars
Jan 21, 2023
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5 stars
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4 stars
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4 stars
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3 stars
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5 stars
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3 stars
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4 stars
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4 stars
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3 stars
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4 stars
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4 stars
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4 stars
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4 stars
Sep 10, 2024
Surprising
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2 stars
Dec 9, 2022
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4 stars
Dec 5, 2022
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4.5 stars
Aug 20, 2022
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5 stars
Aug 13, 2022
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Aug 11, 2022

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