![]() ![]() Like faer other books and stories, Sorrowland is thought-provoking and ambitious. With Sorrowland, author Rivers Solomon has created a masterful, genre-defying work of gothic sci-fi horror. ![]() RELATED: Bitter Root is coming to the big screen! But the Cainland cult is far-reaching, and soon Vern must confront their evil. They begin a long journey toward the only safe haven she knows. Scared to leave her children alone, Vern takes her small family out of the woods for the first time. She grows stronger, feeling nearly invincible until a painful exoskeleton begins forming along her spine. She believes it has to do with the drugs forced onto her at Cainland. Something terrifying and strange and powerful is happening to her body as well. Alone with her family and trying to evade capture, Vern becomes savage, all instinct and need. She plans to raise the boys there, far away from the influence of the outside world. ![]() Eventually, she gives birth to twins in the woods. In Sorrowland, Vern - a 15-year-old pregnant and abused albino Black girl - escapes a cultish compound. “Vern wished to make every moment of her life a rebellion, not just against the Blessed Acres of Cain but the world in all its entirety. ![]()
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