![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stalked by a mysterious figure she calls the Fiend, Vern must find ways to survive and care for her babies, all while a parasite overtakes her body and causes dramatic physical changes. The book opens with her giving birth to twins, whom she names Howling and Feral, in the woods outside the commune, after she ran away. The story follows Vern, a 15-year-old albino girl who was born and raised on a commune run by a Black separatist group. In 2019, their sophomore book, The Deep, inspired by Daveed Diggs’ musical group’s song of the same name, imagined the world and lives of the undersea descendants of kidnapped and enslaved African women thrown from the ships of the enslavers. Rivers Solomon has been making literary waves since their debut novel, 2017’s An Unkindness of Ghosts, brought a mosaic of compelling characters and all-too-real stratified social and political dynamics to life in the setting of a spaceship. ![]()
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