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I just finished reading "Braking Day" by Adam Oyebanji. (I love a title pun)
Set on a generation ship travelling between stars, the story starts when the protagonist -- a junior engineer from a low-class family striving to be an officer -- sees a woman on the ship who shouldn't exist just weeks before it's time for the ship to flip around and start to decelerate. After that discovery, the mysteries just deepen.
At first I thought I was reading a murder mystery, but it was not. It's more a little-guy versus the system story. I thought it was a solid, enjoyable novel.
I appreciated the author's approach to character diversity -- he never describes any physical attributes of his characters, and almost all of them have names that confuse any ethnic classification by pairing first and last names from very different groups, so your imagination is free to "cast" them any way you like. What he does describe is the more salient point of the social class of his characters.