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    "description": "<p><strong>A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction</strong><br /><br /> Vern&mdash;seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised&mdash;flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. <br /><br />But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes.<br /><br />To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future&mdash;outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it.<br /><br />Rivers Solomon&rsquo;s <em>Sorrowland</em> is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. Here, monsters aren&rsquo;t just individuals, but entire nations. It is a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction.</p>",
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