An unkindness of ghosts

Paperback, 349 pages

English language

Published Feb. 1, 2017 by Akashic Books.

ISBN:
978-1-61775-588-0
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OCLC Number:
974676983

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5 stars (2 reviews)

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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5 stars

The ship is out in the black void. The ship is falling apart. The society is in the rotten ship and the society is rotten. The people are in the society and they are falling apart. The protagonist is doing her best and holding together her chosen family in a series of dangerous places. The protagonist is doing her best and is full of problems and her best may also be falling apart and the stakes are personal, realistic and high.

Subjects

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