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Rivers Solomon

Rivers Solomon

Author Biography & Works

Rivers Solomon is an American author of speculative fiction and literary fiction. They received the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses' Firecracker Award in Fiction in 2018 for their debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts. Their second novel, The Deep, won the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. Their third novel, Sorrowland, won the 2021 Otherwise Award.

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Books by Rivers Solomon

The Deep

The Deep

Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be...

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