An Unkindness of Ghosts
ISBN-13: 9781617755880
Author(s): Rivers Solomon
Subjects: FL
Publisher: Akashic Books
Publisher Imprint: Akashic Books
Publication Date: 09-11-2017
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£13.25
About the book
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 and 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 and her mother's suicide some quarter-century before, Aster retraces her mother's footsteps. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer and sowing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns there may be a way off the ship if she's willing to fight for it.