Model Home A Novel
Model Home by Rivers Solomon, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2024, is a novel that redefines the haunted-house genre. This edition spans 304 pages and is presented in English. The story follows the three Maxwell siblings, who, as adults, confront the traumatic memories of their childhood in a gated community outside Dallas, where they were the only Black family. After the death of their parents, Ezri, Eve, and Emanuelle return to their childhood home to unravel the mysteries surrounding their family’s past and the unsettling events that transpired while they were away.
Readers will find a narrative that intertwines elements of horror, mystery, and literary fiction, exploring themes of segregation and racism in the suburban American South. As the siblings navigate their family’s dark legacy, they confront both supernatural and emotional challenges, revealing the complexities of grief and healing. Model Home presents a unique perspective on the haunted-house trope, inviting readers to reflect on the intersection of personal and collective histories within contemporary American life.
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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.
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