Model Home: A Novel

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?

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Published Sep 30, 2025

304 pages

Average rating: 7.14

36 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

socialbookclub
Aug 04, 2025
7/10 stars
This book was a slow start and didn't start giving until chapter 6. It was not what I was expecting BUT I didn't see the end coming at all.
Hartfullofbooks
Jan 29, 2025
10/10 stars
Model Home is so much more than a haunted house story and I would not recommend this to someone looking for your classic ghosts and supernatural phenomenons in a house. Model home is about racism, hatred, and childhood trauma. How we run from the things we can’t face until we can’t run anymore, haunted by the moments that shaped and plague us. Amazingly diverse representation in this novel, heartbreaking prose, and characters you feel you know. This one was a difficult read and it went to so many places I didn’t expect. This reminded me a lot of White is for switching, where the house itself may or may not actually be the issue here….
phurlz
Nov 21, 2024
8/10 stars
Poetic and terrifying

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