![]() ![]() She escapes to give birth to her twin children Howling and Feral in the woods. ![]() Vern is an albino black woman on the run from black nationalist commune Blessed Acres of Cain. Uncompromising, haunting and unforgettable, Solomon has crafted a modern masterpiece of fantastic fiction. Solomon explores these themes with depth and sensitivity, and imagines new avenues of hope and resistance, ways in which faer characters can find some kind of love and happiness free from the shackles of white supremacy. ![]() Sorrowland explores the United States’ horrendous history of systematic racial oppression, using the modes of the gothic, the fairy tale and science fiction to show us the atrocities of history in a viscerally immediate light. Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland (2021) is a powerful and vital work of speculative fiction, one with its roots in the gothic past but with tendrils reaching out beyond the limits of the New Weird. Mam would be a pile of skin and guts and skeleton, and the creature, clean and bright, would never know that she used to be a mam.” ![]() “Sometimes it seemed like there was a creature inside her, lurking, trying to bust through her bones, a demented birth. ![]()
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