Unkindness of Ghosts

<p>--One of <em>Esquire</em> magazine's <em>50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time</em></p><p>Solomon debuts with a raw distillation of slavery feudalism prison and religion that kicks like rotgut moonshine . . . Stunning. --<em>Publishers Weekly</em> Starred Review</p><p>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.</p><p>Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS <em>Matilda</em> a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations <em>Matilda</em> 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.</p>