Sorrowland
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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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Body horror der in eine Ausstellung gehört
Obwohl ich am Anfang schwer reingekommen bin, hat dieses Buch die 5 Sterne verdient. Rivers Solomon erzählt mir einer grausamen zärtlichkeit, was es heißt zu existieren. Anders zu sein. Die Kombination aus rassismuskritischer Art über moderne Sklaverei zu schreiben, body horror und übernatürlichen Elementen, getoppt mit Queerfeministischen Aspekten, hat mich voll und ganz abgeholt. Es wird so schön klar wie grief und Freude koexistieren können. Wie grausam der menschliche Körper sein kann und wie sehr sich es am Ende trotzdem lohnt. Wow
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1 reviews
Mood
Protagonist(s)
Pace
Writing Style
Description
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.
Book Information
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Body horror der in eine Ausstellung gehört
Obwohl ich am Anfang schwer reingekommen bin, hat dieses Buch die 5 Sterne verdient. Rivers Solomon erzählt mir einer grausamen zärtlichkeit, was es heißt zu existieren. Anders zu sein. Die Kombination aus rassismuskritischer Art über moderne Sklaverei zu schreiben, body horror und übernatürlichen Elementen, getoppt mit Queerfeministischen Aspekten, hat mich voll und ganz abgeholt. Es wird so schön klar wie grief und Freude koexistieren können. Wie grausam der menschliche Körper sein kann und wie sehr sich es am Ende trotzdem lohnt. Wow