Model Home

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 therethey were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enoughbut right away bad thingsscary thingsΓÇöthe strange and the unexplainableΓÇöbegan to happen in their house. Maybe it was some cosmic triala demonic rite of passage into the upper-middle class. Whatever it wasthe Maxwellssteered by their formidable motherstayed putunwilling to abandon their hometerrors and trauma be damned. As adultsthe siblings could finally get away from the horrors of homeleaving their parents all alone in the house. But when news of their parents’ death arrivesEzri is forced to return to Texas with their sistersEve and Emanuelleto reckon with their familyΓÇÖs past and presentand to find out what happened while they were away. It was not a ΓÇ£naturalΓÇ¥ death for their parents . . . but was it supernatural? Rivers Solomon turns the haunted-house story on its headunearthing the dark legacies of segregation and racism in the suburban American South. Unbridledrawand daringModel Home is the story of secret histories uncoveredand of a queer family battling for their right to livegrieveand heal amid the terrors of contemporary American life.