# Model Home - Hardcover

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by **Rivers Solomon** (Author)

**LOCUS AWARD FINALIST**

**Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous _Model Home_, a new kind of haunted-house novel.**

The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things--the strange and the unexplainable--began to happen in their house. Maybe it was some cosmic trial, a demonic rite of passage into the upper-middle class. Whatever it was, the Maxwells, steered by their formidable mother, stayed put, unwilling to abandon their home, terrors and trauma be damned.

As adults, the siblings could finally get away from the horrors of home, leaving their parents all alone in the house. But when news of their parents' death arrives, Ezri is forced to return to Texas with their sisters, Eve and Emanuelle, to reckon with their family's past and present, and to find out what happened while they were away. It was not a "natural" death for their parents . . . but was it supernatural?

Rivers Solomon turns the haunted-house story on its head, unearthing the dark legacies of segregation and racism in the suburban American South. Unbridled, raw, and daring, _Model Home_ is the story of secret histories uncovered, and of a queer family battling for their right to live, grieve, and heal amid the terrors of contemporary American life.

### Author Biography

**Rivers Solomon** writes about life in the margins, where they are much at home. In addition to appearing on the Stonewall Honor List and winning a Firecracker Award, Solomon's debut novel, _An Unkindness of Ghosts_, was a finalist for Lambda, Hurston/Wright, Otherwise (formerly Tiptree), and Locus Awards. Solomon's second book, _The Deep_, based on the Hugo-nominated song by the Daveed Diggs-fronted hip-hop group clipping, was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Award and was short-listed for the Nebula, Locus, Hugo, Ignyte, Brooklyn Library Literary, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards. Their work appears in _Black Warrior Review_, _The New York Times_, _The New York Times Magazine_, _Guernica_, _Best American Short Stories_, _Tor.com_, _Best American Horror and Dark Fantasy_, and elsewhere. A refugee of the transatlantic slave trade, Solomon was born on Turtle Island but currently resides on an isle in an archipelago off the western coast of the Eurasian continent.

**Number of Pages:** 304

**Dimensions:** 1.09 x 8.52 x 5.72 IN

**Publication Date:** October 01, 2024

## Details

- **Price:** 35.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Horror, Literary, Price Written on Book, Supernatural, Thrillers

## Variants

| Variant | Price | Available |
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| Default Title | 35.00 GBP | In stock |

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