Two bodies lie in the garden of a sprawling property in Oak Creek Estate, a wealthy gated community in Dallas, Texas.
The bodies belong to the parents of Ezri, Eve and Emmanuel, who have long since abandoned the childhood home in which their parents remained all these years. A home that has haunted and hollowed them throughout their lives, in a neighbourhood where they grew up as the only Black family, hoping to survive a place that wanted to claim them, expel them and ruin them all at once.
In the wake of their parents’ death, Ezri and their siblings are forced to confront the reasons they left, the nightmares that have held them captive and the possibility that realities exist beyond those that have forged them.
Bold and tender, Model Home is powerful meditation on the power of memory, loss and identity.
Praise for Sorrowland:
“A wonderland of fantastical and frightening, magical and real.” Marlon James
“A fantastical, fierce reckoning... Sorrowland is gorgeous.” Roxanne Gay
“Dark, magical and incredibly satisfying.” Independent
“An exhilarating journey to the outer limits of science fiction.” Guardian
- ISBN10 1529901693
- ISBN13 9781529901696
- Publish Date 20 February 2025 (first published 1 October 2024)
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Merky Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English