Model Home by Rivers Solomon is one of the most talked-about recent releases readers keep adding to their lists and it is easy to see why: a Black family's haunted suburban house and the horror of belonging nowhere.
What it's about
Rivers Solomon takes the haunted-house novel somewhere new: a Black family in a white gated Texas community returns to the childhood home where something has always been wrong. It is unsettling, formally daring literary horror about race, memory and the places that refuse to let us feel safe.
Why everyone's talking about it
Solomon is one of the most acclaimed speculative writers working and Model Home was widely praised as a haunted-house story with real literary weight, appearing on year-end best lists. It brings prestige-fiction craft to genre dread.
The verdict, for now
If you love horror that unsettles the mind as much as the nerves, this is a standout. Come for the haunting, stay for a novelist reinventing what a ghost story can carry.
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