Model Home

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Product Details
Price
$28.00  $26.04
Publisher
MCD
Publish Date
Pages
304
Dimensions
5.72 X 8.52 X 1.09 inches | 0.89 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780374607135

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About the Author
Rivers Solomon writes about life in the margins, where they are much at home. In addition to appearing on the Stonewall Honor List and winning a Firecracker Award, Solomon's debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts, was a finalist for Lambda, Hurston/Wright, Otherwise (formerly Tiptree), and Locus Awards. Solomon's second book, The Deep, based on the Hugo-nominated song by the Daveed Diggs-fronted hip-hop group clipping, was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Award and was short-listed for the Nebula, Locus, Hugo, Ignyte, Brooklyn Library Literary, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards. Their work appears in Black Warrior Review, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Guernica, Best American Short Stories, Tor.com, Best American Horror and Dark Fantasy, and elsewhere. A refugee of the transatlantic slave trade, Solomon was born on Turtle Island but currently resides on an isle in an archipelago off the western coast of the Eurasian continent.
Reviews

"Rivers Solomon, a master of horror and speculative fiction, twists familiar tropes to consider the traumas of modern life . . . Solomon, pulling the reader from past to present and back again, is a masterful story architect tackling themes of race, class and family trauma, layering the narrative with tension, suspense and the uncertainty borne of a questionable narrator . . . Model Home forces readers to think deeper about mental health, abuse and the concept of family. It's not your typical haunted house story, but those interested in the horrors and traumas of contemporary life will devour this twisty supernatural horror."
--Saraciea J. Fennell, Washington Post

"Solomon reimagines the haunted-house genre in this poignant exploration of the ghosts that "unexorcisable, go on inside of us" namely, our parents and our childhoods . . . In chapters alternating between past and present, Solomon evokes the real-life horrors of racism, abuse, and generational trauma, deftly exploring how a human being can become a quasi-haunted house. Coming on the heels of Sorrowland and The Unkindness of Ghosts, Model Home proves Solomon's tremendous talent for reinventing genre stories."
--Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire

"Solomon's genre-defying achievement subverts and reclaims the tropes of the gothic haunted house to create something wholly original and unforgettable."
--Booklist, starred review

"[A] startling reimagination of the haunted-house genre . . . In evocative prose, Solomon harnesses and recasts classic horror tropes to tell an original story of race and class, family, trauma, and grief. Each character . . . is finely rendered, with the dynamic among the siblings illustrating the ways loyalties shift and change, in constant renegotiation, and dramatizing the ruptures activated by traumatic events. The novel's construction is elliptical, with past and present alternating from chapter to chapter [and Solomon's] twists and turns are carefully drawn, with the tension mounting toward a shocking end . . . With this exhilarating and unforgettable work, Solomon proves to be a formidable writer."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred)

" A profoundly haunting work of true horror from one of the greatest writers working today."
--Sarah Gailey, author of Just Like Home and Magic for Liars

"Intense, original, and wonderfully unpredictable--those adjectives describe Rivers Solomon as much as this novel. Model Home is a story of a haunted house and haunted people; profound family secrets lie at the heart of this book as well as, surprisingly, blessedly meaningful touches of love and hope. Rivers Solomon is an astonishingly talented writer."
--Victor LaValle, author of Lone Women and The Changeling