The Maxwell family was the only black family in an affluent Texas gated community, and throughout the childhoods of the three children, strange and shocking events occurred within their home. After what appeared to be a suicide pact between the Maxwell parents, the siblings are forced to return to and uncover the truth and trauma of their youth.
Rivers Solomon graduated from Stanford University with a degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity and holds an MFA in fiction writing from the Michener Center for Writers. Their work frequently dissects the intersections between blackness, queerness, wealth, and wealth disparities, and legacies of colonialism in American life.
Its explorations of trauma, racism, and family are powerful and the tension and mystery are well-paced. It reshapes how we think about haunted houses.