# An Unkindness of Ghosts

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- Book: [An Unkindness of Ghosts](https://www.bookquiver.com/rivers-solomon/an-unkindness-of-ghosts) ([An Unkindness of Ghosts.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rivers-solomon/an-unkindness-of-ghosts.md))
- Authors: [Rivers Solomon](https://www.bookquiver.com/rivers-solomon)
- Publisher: Akashic Books
- ISBN: 978-16-1775-588-0
- Pages: 340
- Published: 2017-11-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

For generations, the 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, who they consider to be less than human. When the autopsy of Matilda''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.