Model Home

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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.

Bold and tender, Model Home is powerful meditation on the power of memory, loss and identity.

Model Home is not an easy book to read - content warning: sexualized violence and involuntary drug use. It is a horror story with lots of metaphorical allusions that only clear up at the end about trauma, identity and racism. With a non-binary, neurodivergent main character.

/Model Home ist kein einfach zu lesendes Buch - Inhaltswarnung: sexualisierte Gewalt und unfreiwilliger Drogenkonsum. Es ist eine Horror-Story mit vielen metaphorischen Andeutungen, die sich erst am Ende aufklären über Trauma, Identität und Rassismus. Mit nichtbinärer, neurodivergenter Hauptfigur.

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