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5/5stars The only problem I had with this book was that it was SUCH A SHORT ONE, pls I NEED MORE OF SOLOMON'S WRITING!!! I read [b:An Unkindness of Ghosts|35586909|An Unkindness of Ghosts|Rivers Solomon|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1513980217l/35586909._SX50_.jpg|55469636] earlier this year and I fell in love with the author's writing style and this books just adds on to it. Forgetting was not the same as healing. The author's writing is so poignant, so enchanting and especially the theme of this book, I don't think I have read any other book about intergenerational trauma. The allegory used in this book while talking about history, belonging, generational trauma using African folklore is so unique and beautifully done. She had no wish to transform trauma to performance, to parade what she’d come to think of as her own tragedies for entertainment. For those who don't know, this is a story about merpeople who were born when pregnant African slave women were thrown into oceans and how they carry generations worth of trauma and the memories haunt them (well this one person because they have dissociated and only one person actually remembers their whole history). It's beautiful story, it's short IT TALKS ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE, ABOUT NEURODIVERGENCE, ABOUT QUEER FOLKS,I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT. CWs for the book: Animal death, Attempted suicide, Hallucinations, Slavery, Self-harm