Sorrowland

Name: Sorrowland
ISBN: 9780374266776

by Rivers Solomon

Stonewall Book · 2022 · Winner

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MCD / Farrar, Straus and GirouxMay 4, 2021Literary Fiction Science Fiction & FantasyISBN 9780374266776

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Stonewall Book Award	2022	Winner	“Literature winner”

About This Book

Rivers Solomon's novel follows a young Black woman who escapes a religious cult into the forests of the American South and discovers a terrifying physical transformation. Winner of the Stonewall Book Award for Literature.

About the Author

Rivers SolomonAmerican

Rivers Solomon (b. 1989) is an American author of speculative fiction whose debut novel An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017) won the Firecracker Award, followed by The Deep (2019) winning the Lambda Literary Award and Sorrowland (2021) winning the Otherwise Award. They are non-binary and intersex, using they/them pronouns (or fae/faer), and have received degrees from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin's Michener Center for Writers. Read more →