An Unkindness Of Ghosts Paperback Rivers Solomon by Rivers Solomon 9781617755880, 1617755885 instant download after payment.

Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions & deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they consider to be less than human.
When the autopsy of Matilda's sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death & her mother's suicide some quarter-century before, Aster retraces her mother's footsteps. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer & sowing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns there may be a way off the ship if she's willing to fight for it.

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Rivers Solomon writes about life in the margins, where they are much at home. In addition to appearing on the Stonewall Honor List & winning a Firecracker Award, Solomon's debut novel An Unkindness of Ghosts was a finalist for a Lambda, a Hurston/Wright, & a Locus award. Solomon's second book, The Deep, was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Award & shortlisted for many others including the British Fantasy & World Fantasy awards, & Sorrowland, Solomon's most recent novel, was awarded an Otherwise Award. Their short work appears in Black Warrior Review, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Guernica, Best American Short Stories, Tor.com, Best American Horror & Dark Fantasy, & elsewhere.