
Sorrowland
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Karen Chilton
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By:
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Rivers Solomon
2022 L.A. Times Book Prize
2021 Amazon.com Best Books of the Year
2021 Time Magazine Best Books of the Year
2021 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
2021 NYPL Best Books of the Year
2021 NPR Best Book of the Year
2021 Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year
"Narrator Karen Chilton gives a riveting performance in this genre-defying masterpiece.... The echoes of Chilton's haunting and beautiful narration will reverberate long after this powerful audiobook is over." (AudioFile magazine)
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.
A Macmillan Audio production from MCD
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Loved this unique story
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Good listen with quite the twist!
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This is a voice that I never get tired of listening to. Rivers Solomon’s ability to create beautiful, painful, gorgeously terrifying narratives is the best thing I’ve read in years.
Rivers Solomon continues to impress
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i needed to pause at a few intervals to fully digest some brilliant points. there are several quotes that i’ll be keeping for reference. the author’s understanding of humanity, the whole & the individual, is wholly sublime and distressing and accurate. the part about emotional isolation will be branded into me for a minute. the refusal to acknowledge traditional gender language too, was refreshing and shocking, even as subtle as it was. this one is chemistry altering. for real.
even as a super impatient person, the narration was beautifully paced and also truly connected with the characters. i’ll definitely be looking for more by this author and narrator.
genre bending and insanely poetic
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Not what you think; no matter what you think
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Powerful messaging beautiful story
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Exquisite writing
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Excruciatingly rare talent
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Haunting
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Wow
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