An Unkindness of Ghosts
“Immediately immersive and sophisticated…This is a phenomenal piece of work.”
Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author
A BuzzFeed Books Pick of Books to Read This Fall
A Library Journal Editor’s Pick
An NPR Best Book of 2017
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017
A Paste Magazine Pick of 2017's Best Audiobooks
A BookRiot Pick of Books to Read If You Miss Doctor Who
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
A BookRiot Pick of the Best 25 Science Fiction Audiobooks
Finalist for the 2018 Locus Award for Best First Novel
A Barnes & Noble Pick of 4 Books with Awesome Autistic Protagonists
A Los Angeles Review of Books Pick for a Rainbow Pride Reading List
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.
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