Like a vaccine, it is briefly painful, leaves a lingering soreness, but armors you from the inside out.' - NPR 'Ghosts are 'the past refusing to be forgot,' says a character in this assured science-fiction debut. It is inoculation against pervasive, enduring disease.

I love it like I love food, I love it for what it did to me, I love it for having made me feel stronger and more sure in a nightmare world, but it is not a happy book.

But that might give the wrong impression: that it is a happy book, a book that makes a body feel good. I want to say about this book, its only imperfection is that it ended. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, FinalistLambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBTQ SF/F/HorrorA Stonewall Book Award Honor Book 'What Solomon achieves with this debut-the sharpness, the depth, the precision-puts me in mind of a syringe full of stars. A Best Book of 2017: The Guardian (SF and Fantasy), NPR Book Concierge, Publishers Weekly (SF/F), Library Journal (SF/F), Bustle (Fiction), Bookish (Best Book to Give), Barnes & Noble (SF and Fantasy/Alternate Universe Pick).2018 Locus Award Finalist (First Novel)CLMP Firecracker Award FinalistJohn W.

An unkindness of ghosts