Sorrowland

SorrowlandA TIME 100 Must Read Book of 2021 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. Vern seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised flees for the shelter

Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing

her sister’s Bridezilla antics

original and highly disturbing book

a long-delayed public recognition

and bitingly funny investigation into what's required to make it in America

You are a map of connections—a culmination of everything you have ever posted

especially not for a system that exploits and dehumanizes us

offers a path to freedom

--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

By juxtaposing redacted texts by Smith and the French Marxist Guy Debord with autobiographical prose and poems

Latinos were some of the earliest immigrants to what is now the US--some of them arriving in the 1500s

But when the principal rescinds his approval for a library upgrade