title: Well Read Black Girl Book Club: An Unkindness of Ghosts
start: 2017-11-18
start time: 13:00
end time: 15:00
venue: New Women Space
city: Brooklyn (NY)
country: US
coordinates: 40.7163, -73.9422
tags: FeminismInNY NewWomenSpace feminism feminismo feminismus gender genderstudies non-binary nonbinary queer womenrights womenspace
links:
Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/137358346986324/
description:
NOW READING:
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
LOCATION:
New Woman Space is located conveniently in North Brooklyn, two blocks from the Graham L, a 10-minute walk from the Metropolitan L, G subway station.
Please RSVP. Refreshments will be provided. Questions? Tweet @wellreadblkgirl!
Book description:
Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.
Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship’s leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot—if she’s willing to sow the seeds of civil war.
BONUS: Rivers Solomon visits Greenlight Bookstore
Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 7:30 pm
632 Flatbush Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11225