Sorrowland: A Novel

"Rivers Solomon’s previous books were set in outer space and the depths of the ocean; Sorrowland takes root in the nightmarish soil of the contemporary United States. Vern, a pregnant Black teenager on the run from a cult, gives birth to twins alone in the woods. She raises her children while stalked by a threatening presence she thinks of as “the fiend.” But something even more transformative than pregnancy is happening to Vern’s body, causing turbulent illness and superhuman powers by turn, and she and her twins set out on a dangerous journey to find help and understanding."