All of my quirks, all of my interests, all of my loves are right there on the page.ĪF: It’s tempting to apply contemporary labels to your characters, like trans, intersex, nonbinary, asexual, but those labels don’t exist in their world. It might not seem like it because it’s just a brutal world, but a lot of An Unkindness of Ghosts is just a compilation of all of my favourite things thrown together. Rivers Solomon: I didn’t, no! I feel like first novels often have the luxury of being projects you do for yourself and yourself alone. In exploring the Matilda’s social microcosm, An Unkindness of Ghosts examines intersections of identity and oppression along lines of race, class and gender.Īlex Falck: Did you have a specific audience in mind when you were writing? If so, how did that affect your depiction of the characters and their story? When Aster realizes that her mother’s journals are written in code, she becomes driven to find out what her mother knew and what happened to her. Dark-skinned lowerdeckers are born into slavery, while light-skinned upperdeckers live in luxury.Īster is a scientifically brilliant lowerdecker whose mother disappeared when she was a child. Now, the ship is controlled by a theocratic Sovereign. The novel is set on board the generation ship Matilda, years after a mysterious disaster wiped out the ship’s high-ranking officers and with them, the knowledge of where the ship was heading and why. Rivers Solomon’s debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts, was published last year to critical acclaim and subsequently awarded the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Firecracker Award in Fiction.
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