An unkindness of ghosts / Rivers Solomon.
Publication details: Brooklyn, New York, USA : Akashic Books, 2017.Description: 349 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781617755880
- 1617755885
- FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
- FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Science fiction
- Science fiction
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Racism -- Fiction
- Equality -- Fiction
- Equality
- Government, Resistance to
- Interplanetary voyages
- Racism
- Slavery
- FICTION / African American
- FICTION / Literary
- Government, Resistance to -- Fiction
- Equality -- Fiction
- Racism -- Fiction
- Government, Resistance to -- Fiction
- Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction
- 813/.6 23
- PS3619.O4373 U54 2017
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Science | SOL | Available | 069229 |
"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.