Model Home

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 the 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?

Author: Rivers Solomon
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 09/30/2025
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781250397591
ISBN10: 1250397596
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers | Supernatural
- Fiction | Horror | General
- Fiction | Literary

About the 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 other publications. 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 United Kingdom.