An unkindness of ghosts

Paperback, 349 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2017 by Akashic Books.

ISBN:
9781617755880
OCLC Number:
974676983

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4 stars (1 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.

5 editions

Subjects

  • Equality
  • Resistance to Government
  • Fiction
  • Racism
  • Interplanetary voyages
  • Slavery