{"product_id":"unkindness-of-ghosts-an-1","title":"Unkindness of Ghosts, An","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Best Book of 2017: NPR, The \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookish\u003c\/i\u003e, Barnes \u0026amp; Noble, Chicago Public Library, \u003ci\u003eBook Scrolling\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCLMP Firecracker Award Winner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Stonewall Book Award Honor Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2018 Locus Award, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and the Lambda Literary Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNominated for the 2018 Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Solomon achieves with this debut--the sharpness, the depth, the precision--puts me in mind of a syringe full of stars. I want to say about this book, its only imperfection is that it ended. But that might give the wrong impression: that it is a happy book, a book that makes a body feel good. It is not a happy book. I love it like I love food, I love it for what it did to me, I love it for having made me feel stronger and more sure in a nightmare world, but it is not a happy book. It is an antidote to poison. It is inoculation against pervasive, enduring disease. Like a vaccine, it is briefly painful, leaves a lingering soreness, but armors you from the inside out.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Rivers Solomon's highly imaginative sci-fi novel \u003ci\u003eAn Unkindness of Ghosts, \u003c\/i\u003e eccentric Aster was born into slavery on--and is trying to escape from--a brutally segregated spaceship that for generations has been trying to escort the last humans from a dying planet to a Promised Land. When she discovers clues about the circumstances of her mother's death, she also comes closer to disturbing truths about the ship and its journey.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Solomon does brilliantly in this novel is in the creation of a society in which dichotomies loom over certain aspects of the narrative, and are eschewed by others...Hearkening back to the past in visions of the future can hold a number of narrative purposes...The past offers us countless nightmares and cautionary tales; so too, I'm afraid, can the array of possible futures lurking up ahead.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eTor.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a clear descendent of Octavia Butler's Black science fiction legacy, but grounded in more explicit queerness and neuroatypicality.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAutoStraddle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGhosts are 'the past refusing to be forgot, ' says a character in this assured science-fiction debut. That's certainly the case aboard the HSS \u003ci\u003eMatilda, \u003c\/i\u003e a massive spacecraft arranged along the cruel racial divides of pre-Civil War America.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAster has little to offer folks in the way of r\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39328642826340,"sku":"9781617759246","price":32.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/unkindness-of-ghosts-an-1","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}