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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 remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one - the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. 

A refugee returns to her home planet in search of a missing ship that holds the key to saving humanity. As her planet's star dies, Asala Sikou doesn't have much hope for the future of civilization. She's already survived disaster once and is pretty sure she won't make it a second time. But when...

'Intense, original, and wonderfully unpredictable . . . Model Home is a story of a haunted house and haunted people; profound family secrets lie at the heart of this book as well as, surprisingly, blessedly, meaningful touches of love and hope. Rivers Solomon is an astonishingly talented writer...

Percebida como excêntrica pelas pessoas ao seu redor, Aster nasceu em uma sociedade em que servidão e obediência religiosa são a norma. A humanidade perdeu seu lar e agora habita, há gerações, a nave Matilda, que tenta levar o que restou dos seres humanos para uma Terra Prometida. Vivendo de modo insalubre em uma comunidade empobrecida no deque inferior da nave, Aster desenvolve seus dotes médicos e cuida de todos em seu convés. Contudo, sua vida muda quando descobre pistas sobre a morte suspeita de sua mãe.

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...

"Narrator Karen Chilton gives a riveting performance in this genre-defying masterpiece...The echoes of Chilton's haunting and beautiful narration will reverberate long after this powerful audiobook is over." -- AudioFile Magazine A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest...

Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, whom they consider to be less than human.

Vern, a Black woman with albinism, is hunted after escaping a religious compound, then she discovers that her body is changing and that she is developing extra-sensory powers. Alone in the woods, she gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong - not with them, but with her own body. To understand her body's metamorphosis, Vern must investigate not just the secluded religious compound she fled but the violent history of dehumanisation, medical experimentation and genocide that produced it.