![]() ![]() ![]() Claiming a divine right to lead the spaceship, the rulers use theological interpretations to their advantage. ![]() From daily humiliations to extreme acts of violence, women lowdeckers are their primary victims. ![]() The Sovereignty, the bigoted and racist regime built aboard the spaceship, is a relentless source of misery. The setting, the characters, and the strong themes developed throughout the story made for an unforgettable read. Amidst unexplained blackouts in the lowerdeck and the mysterious illness of the Sovereign, Aster seeks the truth about her mother, who left her strange rambling notes before committing suicide twenty-five years prior. Aster, an orphaned lowdecker, is the brilliant and withdrawn assistant to the Surgeon General. An apartheid-like system has been established aboard the Matilda, where the upperdeck is populated by a white and privileged class and the lowerdeck by an enslaved black population. The story is set aboard the HSS Matilda, a spaceship that has been carrying tens of thousands of people from a now uninhabitable planet Earth towards a mythical Promised Land for three centuries. An Unkindness of Ghosts is one of those books that stays with you, haunts you a little bit, long after you’re done reading it. ![]()
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