Solenne

“It’s a nightmare,” said Solenne Vervisch, 28, who lives in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn and gave up in frustration on Saturday afternoon after waiting in line at Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

2017 May 29, Winnie Hu, Sean Piccoli, “New Yorkers Eagerly Head to Ferries, and Grumpily Board Them”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 May 2017

An 11-year-old British girl was shot dead as she played on swings at her family home in Brittany, France on Saturday. Solenne Thornon, 11, died immediately while her father, 52-year-old Adrien, was shot in the head, leaving him in a critical condition in hospital.

2023 June 12, Nimo Omer, “Monday briefing: How Boris Johnson bade farewell to parliament … for now”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2023

Our protagonist, Solenne Bonet, shares, in many ways, a life narrative with Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson’s most famous slave. Indeed, the official who circumvents the algorithm to take possession of Solenne, after her initial pairing with a writer, has a portrait of Jefferson in his office.

2024 February 13, Tochi Onyebuchi, “In This Novel, a Second Civil War Reinstates Black Bondage”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2024