Rivers Solomon's "Model Home": Beware, a Mother Nightmare at 677 Acacia Drive, Dallas

Rivers Solomon 's latest novel is about family, and much more. Racism, mistreatment, abuse, unease, and ghosts. Model Home is a haunted book about a haunted house, which was meant to be the fulfillment of an establishment dream for Eudora Washington and Edward Maxwell. They moved from New York with their three children to buy a sprawling mansion in the northern suburbs of Dallas. They are the latest buyers of a primary residence in the sprawling, gated Oak Creek Estates development, and the only Black people there. Eudora had given up her academic career to raise her children "and made our home a department of African-American studies." But family life was far from peaceful. Her father was often absent. Her mother, authoritarian and distant, had a whimsical notion of education. Above all, strange and terrifying things were happening at 677 Acacia Drive, which we discover little by little through the voice of Ezri, the narrator, a non-binary person like