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  • Published: 19 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529118759
  • Imprint: Merky Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.00

Sorrowland




\"Sorrowland is wonderland of fantastical and frightening, magical and real.\" Marlon James, Man Booker prize winner

\"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.

\"Epic!\" Observer

Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, who gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong - not with them, but with her own body. It's changing, it's itching, it's stronger, it's... not normal.

Sorrowland is a memorable work of Gothic fiction that wrestles with the tangled history of racism in America, by the end Vern learns that monsters aren't just individuals, but entire histories, systems, and nations.

  • Published: 19 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529118759
  • Imprint: Merky Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.00

About the author

Rivers Solomon

Rivers Solomon is an American author of the 2017 science fiction novel An Unkindness of Ghosts and Sorrowland which is set to be published in 2021. In 2018, they received the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses' Firecracker Award in Fiction for their debut novel and were nominated for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in the debut novel category. They live in the UK.