Sorrowland

<p><b>A wonderland of fantastical and frightening magical and real. </b>Marlon James<br><b>A fantastical fierce reckoning... Sorrowland is gorgeous. </b>Roxanne Gay<br><b>Dark magical and incredibly satisfying.</b> Independent<br><b>An </b><b>exhilarating</b><b> journey to the outer limits of science fiction.</b> Guardian.<br><br>---<br><br>Vern a hunted woman alone in the woods gives birth to twins and raises them<br>away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong - not with<br>them but with her own body. It's changing it's itching it's stronger it's... not<br>normal.<br><br><br>To understand her body's metamorphosis Vern must investigate not just the<br>secluded religious compound she fled but the violent history of dehumanization<br>medical experimentation and genocide that produced it. In the course of<br>reclaiming her own darkness Vern learns that monsters aren't just individuals<br>but entire histories systems and nations.<br><br><br>Sorrowland is a memorable work of Gothic fiction that wrestles with the tangled<br>history of racism in America and the marginalisation of society's undesirables. It<br>is a searing seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold unignorable voice in<br>American fiction.</p>