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Model Home

Three adult siblings return to their Texas childhood home after their parents die, revisiting years of violent, unexplained events. The parents’ deaths were not natural, but the cause remains uncertain.

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Named a Best Horror Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Named a Best Book of the Year by Reactor and t he Chicago Public Library

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 gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. Right away, bad things, scary things―strange, unexplainable, violent―began to happen in their house.

As adults, the siblings all escaped the horrors of home, leaving their parents alone back in Texas. But when news of their parents’ death arrives, Ezri is forced to return to the house with their sisters, Eve and Emanuelle, to reckon with their family’s past and present. Their parents did not die a “natural” death . . . but was it supernatural?

First published: 2024
Publisher: Picador
Pages: 304
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Death of a Loved One

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Horror profile

Scary: Not rated
Creepy: Not rated
Gore: Not rated
Disturbing: Not rated
Weird: Not rated

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Each dimension runs from 1 (low) to 5 (exceptionally intense). A 5 is reserved for strongly consistent evidence. People experience horror differently.

Scary: Fear, tension and immediate threat.
Creepy: Unease, dread and an uncanny atmosphere.
Gore: Graphic injury, blood and bodily detail.
Disturbing: Upsetting ideas and lingering psychological impact.
Weird: Surreal, strange and reality-bending elements.

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