Born to a British GP and his Scandinavian wife after an eleven month gestation (Stapledon makes no mention of how difficult the birth must have been, particularly considering the baby’s outsized head), John proves to be mentally quick but physically slow to develop, in part because his increased brain-power means he has much greater control over his bodily processes. Odd John (published in 1935) tells the story of the (short) life of John Wainwright. (In a neat chain effect, Stapledon’s next novel, Star Maker, which he began working on before Odd John was finished, can be linked to this one, as one thing the titular John leaves behind at the end is “an amazing document… purporting to give an account of the whole story of the Cosmos” - a pretty accurate description of Star Maker.) Stapledon’s third novel, Odd John, began life as an appendix to his second, Last Men in London (1932), a short piece that was called “John’s Story”, which was never published.
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It’s a difficult novel to pin down categorically: its genre-bending sensibilities veer from gothic to ecohorror to cult thriller but Solomon adeptly blends this mix-match. Sorrowland’s readers shouldn’t expect straightforward horror or even horror-fantasy. Like their debut novel An Unkindness of Ghosts and the Lambda Award-winning 2019 follow-up The Deep, Solomon’s newest novel analyses systematic oppression within a speculative framework. With her children in tow, together they learn the appalling truth behind Cainland and contest its ruthless human experiments. As her body alters and threats around her close in, she befriends Bridget and Gogo, a Lakota winkte woman (a term akin to transgender). When Vern eventually emerges from the seeming safe haven of the woods, her body begins to transform and the hauntings she experiences ever since she left Cainland escalate. Vern, the novel’s protagonist, is a black teenager running from an abusive past with her twin children. Rivers Solomon’s third novel Sorrowland begins with unsettling thrills and violence, and it does not let up. Through the woods, she flees from her husband, the Reverend Sherman, and from the cult-like settlement she grew up in. |