A wonderland of fantastical and frightening magical and real. Marlon JamesA fantastical fierce reckoning... Sorrowland is gorgeous. Roxanne GayDark magical and incredibly satisfying. IndependentAn exhilarating journey to the outer limits of science fiction. Guardian.Vern a hunted woman alone in the woods gives birth to twins and raises themaway from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong not withthem but with her own body. Its changing its itching its stronger its... notnormal.To understand her bodys metamorphosis Vern must investigate not just thesecluded religious compound she fled but the violent history of dehumanizationmedical experimentation and genocide that produced it. In the course ofreclaiming her own darkness Vern learns that monsters arent just individualsbut entire histories systems and nations.Sorrowland is a memorable work of Gothic fiction that wrestles with the tangledhistory of racism in America and the marginalisation of societys undesirables. Itis a searing seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold unignorable voice inAmerican fiction.