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An Unkindness of Ghosts
Hardcover
Science FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $39.95
ISBN13: 9781617759246
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Jun 29 2020
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
--One of Esquire magazine's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
Solomon debuts with a raw distillation of slavery, feudalism, prison, and religion that kicks like rotgut moonshine . . . Stunning. --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
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.
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