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Rivers Solomon writes about life in the margins, where they are much at home. They live on a small isle off the coast of the Eurasian continent.

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Average rating: 3.82 · 87,583 ratings · 16,588 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Deep by Rivers Solomon (Goodreads Author), Daveed Diggs, William Hutson 3.77 avg rating — 38,992 ratings — published 2019 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Unkindness of Ghosts 3.96 avg rating — 21,299 ratings — published 2017 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sorrowland 3.82 avg rating — 14,846 ratings — published 2021 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Model Home 3.71 avg rating — 9,194 ratings — published 2024 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by The New York Times, Caitlin Roper (Contributor)(Preface), Rivka Galchen (Contribiutor)(Introduction) 3.56 avg rating — 1,625 ratings — published 2020 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vela (The Vela #1) by Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author), Rivers Solomon (Goodreads Author), S.L. Huang (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 1,272 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Is Another Word for Hunger 3.68 avg rating — 934 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition by Elizabeth Bear (Goodreads Author), Siobhan Carroll, John Chu 3.65 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories by Hannah Tinti (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Rabih Alameddine 3.84 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	St. Juju 3.91 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Rivers Solomon (?)

“What is belonging?” we ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

tags: belonging, loneliness

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“Forgetting was not the same as healing.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

tags: forgetting, healing, mermaid, mermaids, rivers-solomon, slavery, the-deep

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“I am a boy and a girl and a witch all wrapped into one very strange, flimsy, indecisive body. Do you think my body couldn't decide what it wanted to be?”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

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What Will Be Our December 2020 Moderator Pick?

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An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

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Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession

2 votes, 33.3%

The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter

1 vote, 16.7%

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Rivers’s Quotes

“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: inspirational

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“I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: awareness, growth

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