{"title":"Rivers Solomon","description":"Rivers Solomon writes about life in the margins, where they're much at home. Their work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Short Stories, and other publications. They are the author of An Unkindness of Ghosts, The Deep, and Sorrowland. A refugee of the transatlantic slave trade, Solomon was born on Turtle Island. They currently live in the United Kingdom.","products":[{"product_id":"model-home-paperback","title":"Model Home - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Horror Book of the Year by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eReactor \u003c\/i\u003eand t\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehe Chicago Public Library\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWelcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous \u003ci\u003eModel Home\u003c\/i\u003e, a new kind of haunted-house novel. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. Right away, bad things, scary things--strange, unexplainable, violent--began to happen in their house. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs adults, the siblings all escaped the horrors of home, leaving their parents alone back in Texas. But when news of their parents' death arrives, Ezri is forced to return to the house with their sisters, Eve and Emanuelle, to reckon with their family's past and present. Their parents did not die a \"natural\" death . . . but was it supernatural?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101128134879,"sku":"9781250397591","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/IbxKQfS_uh9781250397591.webp?v=1781068313"},{"product_id":"unkindness-of-ghosts-hardcover","title":"Unkindness of Ghosts - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS \u003cem\u003eMatilda, \u003c\/em\u003e a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot--if she's willing to sow the seeds of civil war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101544091871,"sku":"9781617759246","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/czFNYytJcFQxNVV0TFpKcWowdnByQT09.webp?v=1781071692"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/rivers-solomon.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}