👍🏿👍🏿 Reposted from @thedragonsden_ 💫 An Unkindness of Ghosts 💫 I did it... I read my last Solomon's book 😭 I'm glad I saved this one for last - it was a very hard read (like their other works also are, tbf), but this one really dug into its dark themes. We follow Aster, a medic about the HSS Mathilda, a space ship on its way to find Paradise with the last shreds of humanity. The people aboard the ship are separated into strict hierarchal groups, with rich, white people living at the top and using most of the resources, while black people live and work at the bottom. Like the Antebellum South at it's worst. The books doesn't only deal with racism and race - it also deals with religious trauma, neurodivergence (the main character is autistic), generational trauma, queerness, and gender. 💫 I'm gonna leave you with some quotes I couldn't help but underline while reading, cause they were so beautiful: 💫 ""I am a boy and a girl and a witch all wrapped into one very strange, flimsy, indecisive body. Do you think my body couldn’t decide what it wanted to be?” “I think it doesn’t matter because we get to decide what our bodies are or are not,” he answered. (...) “Is that so? Then I am magic. I say it, therefore it is true,” she said."" 💫 "In my language, there is no word for I. To even come close, you must say, E’tesh’lem vereme pri’lus, which means, This one here who is apart from all. It’s the way we say lonely and alone. It’s the way we say outsider. It’s the way we say weak. Everyone always wonders about I love you. In Ifrek you say, Mev o’tem, or, We are together. “How do you say, I’m tired?” people ask. “Ek’erb nal veesh ly. The time for rest is upon us." 💫 "People were so often mean that when they weren’t, there was a tendency to bestow sainthood upon them. Aster did not reward common decency with her affection." So yes. Highly recommend, but keep in mind that this is a dark book! Yet, there's still lots of love here, triumphing over it all. . . . #anunkindnessofghosts #riverssolomon #scifi #sciencefiction #queerbooks #lgbtqabooks #queer #queerlit #lgbtqafiction #queerbookstagram #afrofuturism #booksbooksbooks #shelfie #booksta #bookstacks https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci1LuatLwxq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
