Sorrowland: A Novel (Paperback)

Sorrowland: A Novel (Paperback)A New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2021 The Stonewall Book Award winner of 2022 Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR, The New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly and more! A triumphant, genre bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction. Vernseven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raisedflees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth

The author shows how the enslaved Africans created social identities based on their common experiences

with commercial enterprises and influence stretching from Spain to Turkey

and it's up to her to stop them

orientalists

" Stephen doesn't want to hear that--he wants to have no lane

Winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustration Award

forgetting its Southern origins and weakening it in the process

Bickering their way from Century City to Malibu and beyond

Each chapter is its own temple

CeCé Telfer is a warrior

“It was like going to Oz―there was all this color and energy

which directly suspended democratic process