An Unkindness of Ghosts Author:Rivers Solomon Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak.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, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls of the brutal ship where she and her ancestors have lived... more » for generations. The lowdeck slums of HSS Matilda, an antiquated space vessel ferrying the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land, is a prison Aster wants desperately to escape.
When an autopsy of Matilda's head reveals a surprising link between his death and Aster's mother's suicide a quarter-century before, Aster retraces her mother's footsteps in hopes of finding out the truth behind Matilda's voyage. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer and sowing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns there may be a way out of this life if she's willing to fight for it.« less