Rivers Solomon

Jan 17, 2025 | bookbrowse.com | Rivers Solomon

"Model Home" by Rivers Solomon takes the standard haunted house novel and gives it a modern, woke twist. Imagine a neurodivergent family facing evil spirits on top of that inconvenience. When three very different siblings turn up at their loathed childhood home to find their parents dead, emotions come up for which they are unprepared. The house becomes the main suspect. The multiple timelines serve a purpose. Ezri analyzes her childhood compared to the modern child-rearing they must do.

Oct 1, 2024 | alumni-sciencespolyon.fr | Betsy Lerner |Rivers Solomon |Mark Haddon

Oct 1, 2024 | bookbrowse.com | Rivers Solomon

ONE. Maybe my mother is God, and that's why nothing I do pleases her. Maybe my mother is God, and that's why even though she's never once saved me, I keep praying that this time she will. I'm Chava in the garden, freshly aware of my nakedness. Can't let Mother see what lowly thing I've become. * * *One day soon, I'll be a failed deity, too. My daughter is learning not to believe in me. Tonight, she can't sleep.

Sep 28, 2024 | nytimes.com | Rivers Solomon

But the reader can allow only so much ornamentation before the actual suffering loses resonance. Frustrated by an outsider who suggests the family believes in "impossible things," Ezri invokes the Holocaust in such a cursory way as to render this global tragedy a mere talisman ("how could it be so, how such a sad, sad thing could be so - and yet, it is so").

Aug 1, 2024 | scroll.in | Rivers Solomon

A ster removed two scalpels from her med-kit to soak in a solution of disinfectant. Her fingers trembled from the cold, and the tools slipped from her grasp, plopping ungracefully into the sanitiser. In ten minutes’ time, she’d be amputating a child’s gangrenous foot. This shaking and carrying on would not do. Was this winter? Dim light – chemiluminescent reactions of peroxide, orange dye, and ester – suffused the makeshift operating room. Starjars, the T-deckers called their improvised lanterns.