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Sorrowland: A Novel Audiobook
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"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.
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“If you’ve read Rivers Solomon’s previous work, you’ll be familiar with their fearless explorations of transformation, identity, oppression and power, and Sorrowland continues this investigation with fantastic, terrifying sci-fi brilliance.”
— Ms. Magazine
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“Solomon’s fantastic, ferocious third novel reimagines The Call of the Wild as an allegory about the complexities of motherhood and womanhood, of bodily liberation and self-reliance.”
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“A powerful story about motherhood, survival, and the cruel treatment of Black bodies.”
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“Narrator Karen Chilton gives a riveting performance in this genre-defying masterpiece…[that] will reverberate long after this powerful audiobook is over.”
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“This country has a dark history of what it’s willing to do to black bodies, and Rivers Solomon lays that truth bare.”
— Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author
Awards
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An Oprah Magazine Pick of the Month
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick in Science Fiction & Fantasy
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month
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A BookRiot Pick of the Year's Best SFF Novels
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A Time Magazine Best Book of 2021
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A New York Times Best Book of 2021
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A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2021
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Among shortlisted titles for L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist, 2022
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Among longlisted titles for Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for NYPL Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2021
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Among shortlisted titles for L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist, 2022
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Among longlisted titles for Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for NYPL Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2021
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Among shortlisted titles for L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist, 2022
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Among longlisted titles for Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for NYPL Best Books of the Year, 2021
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About Rivers Solomon
Rivers Solomon is the author of An Unkindness of Ghosts and has twice been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Rivers Solomon graduated from Stanford University with a degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity and holds an MFA in fiction from the Michener Center for Writers.
About Karen Chilton
Karen Chilton is a New York–based actor and writer and an accomplished voice-over artist and narrator. She has narrated dozens of audiobooks, won three AudioFile Earphones Awards, and in 2020 won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narration. Her voice can be heard on numerous national network television, radio, and Internet advertising campaigns.