Sorrowland

A Novel

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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 …

hardcover, 320 páginas

Publicado el 4 de mayo de 2021 por MCD.

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reseñó Sorrowland de Rivers Solomon

good writing, dark mood, weird plot arc

It's a good read but i put it away for some months because it is so gritty and dark and that's not how i like my escapism sometimes. also, it felt like the plot didn't really get going for a long stretch in the middle and then everything rushed to an end. anyway, it has a lot of truly beautiful, poetic sentences which sometimes almost made me cry. i loved the characters, and the writing of queerness and queer sex. i read "the deep" by the author before and liked it a lot, so maybe my expectations were a bit too high for this one.

reseñó Sorrowland de Rivers Solomon

good writing, dark mood, weird plot arc

3.5 stars - it's a good read but i put it away for some months because it is so gritty and dark and that's not how i like my escapism sometimes. also, it felt like the plot didn't really get going for a long stretch in the middle and then everything rushed to an end. anyway, it has a lot of truly beautiful, poetic sentences which sometimes almost made me cry. i loved the characters, and the writing of queerness and queer sex. i read "the deep" by the author before and liked it a lot, so maybe my expectations were a bit too high for this one.