While these events provide this alternative history setting, the rhetoric and experiments felt just a shade away from our reality.Īnd this entire alternate history setting is truly chilling. But Sorrowland is also an action packed story featuring identity, queerness, motherhood, and the medical experimentation of Black bodies. So I could talk forever about how much I appreciated Vern delving into this question of a future for herself as it relates also to her children. This line of identity becoming a mother was intriguing because I feel like I don’t read about that much in adult fantasy. Where she continually has to decide between her own ambition and her children. Vern explores this line of where her own desires and dreams end once she becomes a mother. One of my favorite elements has to be the way that Sorrowland examines parenthood and identity. It is an epic, emotional, and raw book with a tinge of body horror, fantasy which will intrigue you, and a fascinating main character. Sorrowland is a book I haven’t full processed and it’s been a few weeks since I finished. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.) (Disclaimer: I received this book from Netgalley. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it Review To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future – outside the woods.
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.
There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.īut even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Vern – seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised – flees for the shelter of the woods. But I still made it! Keep reading this book review for my full thoughts. So when I got an e-ARC of Sorrowland I thought I’d dive in right away. After An Unkindness of Ghosts I knew that Solomon was going to be an auto-buy author. Sorrowland is a book I’ve had on my TBR since before it released.
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