'Unkindness Of Ghosts' Transposes The Plantation's Cruelty To The Stars
Rivers Solomon's novel is set on a giant generation ship, on an interstellar voyage of centuries, divided between the wealthy, light-skinned upper-deckers and the oppressed, laboring lower-deckers.
by Amal El-Mohtar
Oct 06, 2017
3 minutes
Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts is the kind of novel I need to describe in terms of what it did to me. Reading it, I felt it carving out a vastness inside me, pouring itself into me like so many stars, and the more I read the bigger I felt, falling down a rabbit-hole of sky and wanting only to go deeper and farther with every page.
Aster lives on a generation ship called , organized muchand the Promised Land they've been in search of for 325 years.
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