An unkindness of ghosts
- Author/Creator:
- Solomon, Rivers
- Publication/Creation:
- [United States] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2018
- Format:
- Sound Recording
- Edition:
- Unabridged.
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- An unkindness of ghosts / Rivers Solomon
- Series Titles:
- Naxos spoken word library.
Related Names
- Additional Author/Creators:
- Boothe, Cherise, narrator
Subjects/Genre
- Genre:
- Streaming audio
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Fiction - Subjects:
- Space travelers--Fiction
Racism--Fiction
Civil war--Fiction
Racism
Description/Summary
- Summary:
- Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak.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 HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. 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 sewing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns there may be a way off the ship if she's willing to fight for it.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (11 hr., 54 min.))
- General Note:
- Part of the Naxos spoken word library.
- Local Note:
- Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.
- Participant/Performer Note:
- Narrated by Cherise Boothe.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937773726402486
- ISBN:
- 9781538475034
1538475030 - OCLC Number:
- 1038445922
- Publisher Number:
- MWT11900483
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