An Unkindness of Ghosts

About the BookRIVERS SOLOMONS CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DEBUT (LEE CHILD CALLED IT PHENOMENAL) EXAMINES CLASS, RACE, GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE TELLING OF A RIP-ROARING SPACE ADVENTURE.A breath taking science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler.Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. Shes used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, shed 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 ships 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 lotif shes willing to sow the seeds of civil war.About the AuthorRivers Solomon graduated from Stanford University with a degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity and holds an MFA in fiction writing from the Michener Center for Writers. Though originally from the United States, they currently live in Cambridge, England, with their family. An Unkindness of Ghosts is their debut novel.