Rivers Solomon - Model Home
WithRivers Solomon
In conversation withRebecca Wojturska
On:18th March 2025, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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It's our great pleasure to be welcoming Rivers Solomon to the bookshop for an event to celebrate their latest novel, Model Home, which is an incisive and dark look at race, identity and psychosis set in the American South from a bold and original voice in fiction. Solomon will be in conversation with Rebecca Wojturska, the Managing Director of independent publisher Haunt Publishing.
This event will take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience, as well as a livestream for attendees watching from home. There will be a signing after the event.
In-person vouchers can be redeemed on the night of the event against a single copy of Model Home – we will have a list of attendees with vouchers to be redeemed. Please note that only one voucher can be redeemed per book. Livestream vouchers are valid until the day after the event and can be redeemed on our website against a single copy of Model Home.
About Model Home:
Two bodies lie in the garden of a sprawling property in Oak Creek Estate, a wealthy gated community in Dallas, Texas.
The bodies belong to the parents of Ezri, Eve and Emmanuel, who have long since abandoned the childhood home in which their parents remained all these years. A home that has haunted and hollowed them throughout their lives, in a neighbourhood where they grew up as the only Black family, hoping to survive a place that wanted to claim them, expel them and ruin them all at once.
In the wake of their parents’ death, Ezri and their siblings are forced to confront the reasons they left, the nightmares that have held them captive and the possibility that realities exist beyond those that have forged them.
Please note: Tickets for our events are non-refundable. Professional photography and videography may take place during this event. Thank you for your understanding.
Participants:
Rivers Solomon Author
Rivers Solomon writes about life in the margins, where they're much at home. Their work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. They are the author of An Unkindness of Ghosts, The Deep, and Sorrowland. A refugee of the transatlantic slave trade, Solomon was born on Turtle Island. They currently live in the UK.
Rebecca Wojturska Chair
Rebecca Wojturska (she/her) is the Managing Director of Haunt Publishing, an independent publisher of Gothic, horror and dark fiction books. Rebecca also works in academic publishing at the University of Edinburgh, managing Edinburgh Diamond: a library-based Diamond Open Access publishing service for academic- and student-led books and journals. In her spare time she loves nothing more than reading Gothic literature, watching horror films, playing D&D, and crushing her enemies at board games.
The venue
The Portobello Bookshop
46 Portobello High Street
Edinburgh
EH15 1DA
Telephone: 0131 629 6756
Website: www.theportobellobookshop.com
Wheelchair Access
We have a ramp at the front of the shop which has a ratio of 1:10 and loading capacity of 300kg, and so should be able to be used by most wheelchair users or those with mobility vehicles. The front doors are fully automated. Our shop interior is designed to allow access throughout for wheelchair users and prams, though please note there is only 700mm wide clearance to access the staff toilet.
Sound
We use a PA system to enhance the audio at our live events. We also have a hearing loop system installed, if you’d like to use our loop system during an event please let us know and we’ll make sure we have it set up and connected to the live audio feed during the event. If you wish to attend an event and require BSL interpretation, please give us a few weeks notice and we’ll do our best to arrange an interpreter.