An unkindness of ghosts
By: Rivers Solomon
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781617755880
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Equality; Resistance to Government; Fiction; Racism; Interplanetary voyages; Slavery
Description: "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.