Aster has small to offer folks in the form of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the brands; she only desires there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful plenty of to rip down the walls around her until nothing remains of her globe.Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized similar to the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda offers ferried the final of mankind to a mythical Guaranteed Land. Coming, the ship’s market leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge having a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot-if she’s willing to sow the seed products of civil battle.