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An Unkindness of Ghosts
Hurston/Wright Legacy · 2018 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Debut Fiction) | 2018 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Aboard a generation ship organized along racial lines mimicking the antebellum South, a neurodivergent woman in the lower decks investigates her mother's death and uncovers secrets that could reshape the ship's rigid social order. Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction.
About the Author
Rivers SolomonAmerican
Rivers Solomon (b. 1989) is an American author of speculative fiction whose debut novel An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017) won the Firecracker Award, followed by The Deep (2019) winning the Lambda Literary Award and Sorrowland (2021) winning the Otherwise Award. They are non-binary and intersex, using they/them pronouns (or fae/faer), and have received degrees from Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin's Michener Center for Writers. Read more →
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