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An Unkindness of Ghosts

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Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak.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 around her until nothing remained of her world, save for stories told around the cookfire.Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSSMatilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, theMatildahas 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 ofMatilda'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.
Request Code : ZLIBIO2262235
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Year:
2017
Edition:
Paperback
Publisher:
Akashic Books
Language:
English
Pages:
351
ISBN 10:
1617755885
ISBN 13:
9781617755880
ISBN:
1617755885,9781617755880

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