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Model Home
by Rivers Solomon
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A brutal, brilliant, unsettling masterpiece that upends the typical haunted house novel. The story focuses on Ezri and their two sisters, who grew up in a McMansion in a white suburb of Dallas, where strange and increasingly terrible inexplicable things happened. There's a lot here about trauma, memory, racism/segregation, and parenting. As a parent, I found this book very impactful but simultaneously difficult to read.
The audiobook performance is great (done by Gabby Beans), although I was confused why she didn't do a British accent for Elijah, Ezri's daughter who has grown up in the U.K.
CW: childhood sexual abuse
The audiobook performance is great (done by Gabby Beans), although I was confused why she didn't do a British accent for Elijah, Ezri's daughter who has grown up in the U.K.
CW: childhood sexual abuse
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault