An Unkindness of Ghosts /
Solomon, Rivers, 1989- , author.
An Unkindness of Ghosts / Rivers Solomon. - Brooklyn, N. Y. : Akashic, 2017. - 349 pages ; 21 cm
"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot--if she's willing to sow the seeds of civil war"--Page 4 of cover.
Stonewall Book Award Nominee, 2018
9781617755880 1617755885
2017936119
Slavery--Fiction.
Racism--Fiction.
Equality--Fiction.
Interplanetary voyages--Fiction.
Government, Resistance to--Fiction.
FICTION / African American & Black / Women.
FICTION / Dystopian.
FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic.
FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Exploration.
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An Unkindness of Ghosts / Rivers Solomon. - Brooklyn, N. Y. : Akashic, 2017. - 349 pages ; 21 cm
"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot--if she's willing to sow the seeds of civil war"--Page 4 of cover.
Stonewall Book Award Nominee, 2018
9781617755880 1617755885
2017936119
Slavery--Fiction.
Racism--Fiction.
Equality--Fiction.
Interplanetary voyages--Fiction.
Government, Resistance to--Fiction.
FICTION / African American & Black / Women.
FICTION / Dystopian.
FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic.
FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Exploration.
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