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A review by divineauthor
Model Home by Rivers Solomon
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
5.0
“If I cannot forget, what is there? I am always remembering, even when I am not. Me is in itself a remembrance. Me does not exist without the past that shaped my being. And what is there between memory and forgetting?” —Ezri, page 177
MODEL HOME was not the horror novel i was expecting, but i was raptured by it, in the old latin sense of the word—a carrying away, a preying upon, a seizing. this is not a typical haunting, and it wouldn’t be the same story otherwise. ezri, the main narrator, is a nesting russian doll character and each unveiling / unraveling / un-becoming skews the entire world on its head. insanity.
this is my first solomon book and, good lord. what an introduction for me. the intricate way they play with tense and punctuation, how that falls in and out and in and out of memory and fantasy and dreams and reality . . . insane writing, genuinely. i will definitely picking up more of their books.
fucking horrifying read, guys. jesus.
MODEL HOME was not the horror novel i was expecting, but i was raptured by it, in the old latin sense of the word—a carrying away, a preying upon, a seizing. this is not a typical haunting, and it wouldn’t be the same story otherwise. ezri, the main narrator, is a nesting russian doll character and each unveiling / unraveling / un-becoming skews the entire world on its head. insanity.
this is my first solomon book and, good lord. what an introduction for me. the intricate way they play with tense and punctuation, how that falls in and out and in and out of memory and fantasy and dreams and reality . . . insane writing, genuinely. i will definitely picking up more of their books.
fucking horrifying read, guys. jesus.