It is difficult to discuss Sorrowland without giving away lots of spoilers, but I will do my best to keep these to a minimum. Solomon’s writing is one more instance of the genre hybridity and emotional and conceptual reach of speculative fiction writing in the twenty-first century, especially by writers of color. The book feels like science fiction to me, even though it might more likely be categorized as gothic horror, or even magic realism. Both of those books were powerful and thought-provoking, but Solomon’s new novel, Sorrowland, is even better. Rivers Solomon is the author of two previous books: An Unkindness of Ghosts, a space opera crossed with a neo-slave narrative, and The Deep, a narrative elaboration of the hip hop group clipping.’s reboot of the Detroit techno band Drexciya’s mythology of an underwater civilization composed of the descendents of kidnapped Africans who were thrown overboard during the Middle Passage. I received an advance copy, courtesy of NetGalley, in return for providing an honest review. Here is my review of Rivers Solomon’s new novel, Sorrowland.
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