Sorrowland follows Vern, a seven-month pregnant mother, as she narrowly escapes from her extremist religious compound, Cainland. I think it’s too long by about 50-75 pages, the prose sometimes flirts with self-indulgence, and the middle section has a pacing problem.īut all that said? It is impossible to deny the crowning achievement that Sorrowland is-an ambitious tour-de-force that rockets the author, Rivers Solomon, into the upper echelons of the publishing industry. But by my count? Sorrowland could be accurately placed in six: LGBTQ+ coming-of-age, survival thriller, supernatural horror, speculative fantasy, psychological literary fiction, and science-fiction.Īmazingly, Sorrowland not only successfully pulls off that balancing act, but excels at it.īefore I go further, though, I should probably clarify my opinion: I didn’t love Sorrowland. In reality (not the one where I’m in True Detective) very few of them truly accomplish the feat. There are plenty of books, films, and TV series that try to be “genre-agnostic”-pieces of art that claim to exist simultaneously in several different genres. *Peter slaps himself across the face and reminds himself that he isn’t Rust Cohle.* Said writer slams down an overpriced beer and wordlessly walks out.ĭid this happen to me? In reality? No. A befuddled writer walks into a Brooklyn watering hole and is asked to pitch the premise of Sorrowland in a succinct, logline-like manner.
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