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Title Statement | An unkindness of ghosts / Rivers Solomon. |
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Author | Solomon, Rivers |
Publication | Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books,[2017]©2017 |
Extent of Item | 281 pages |
ISBN | 1617759244 9781617759246 |
Other Number | 3924183 |
Summary | "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. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Slavery--Fiction |
Racism--Fiction | |
Interplanetary voyages--Fiction | |
Government, Resistance to--Fiction | |
Space ships--Fiction | |
By Genre | Science fiction |