Why not title it the cruelty instead of unkindness? It emphasizes the lack of virtue than the vice.
It's Afrofuturism, a plantation in a traveling spaceship. All the various problems are worse in poverty, and neurodivergence is one of them, avoiding gender issues by being a they, though others call Aster a she.
Aster is a healer in the slave area of the ship.
Rivers Solomon has a few interesting changes in their looks:
Notes:
27 pages a day until we meet for the book club.
I like it that Solomon has Keats' negative capability.
The mean guard imagines they should thank him for being such an asshole. It reminds me of a certain person who gets imaginary peace prizes and starts wars.
The sections have different narrators.
I didn't make the book club, and I'm almost done, but I came across the sentence where she used the unkindness idea. My translation is, the unkindness of ghosts is that we're reactive, and have unhelpful traumatic reactions to situations instead of act in our own best interest.
Your experience is important. A friend was robbed twice at the same subway stop. She feel anxious when she gets there. Can she do anything to get rid of that? I don't think so, experience teaches you things. And she can be open to her anxiety at the spot, be curious about it, be aware and alert in that spot. We get anxious before public speaking and athletic events we participate in. Our body is just getting ready for something important. Noticing it, naming it, helps me to relax. Overcoming trauma is no easy thing. It's easy to take things the wrong way.
This is a novel about uppity negroes on a space ship run like a plantation. It's often going to be lose-lose situations.
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