slowly reading moss started reading The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #1)
it's a bit scary to start reading yet another piece of fiction, given the afantasia (and difficulty keeping track of characters and their relations), but we're giving this book/series a try. this book (first in series of four) is by the same author of the other short series I enjoyed plenty ("Monk & Robot").
there's a list of characters on Wikipedia, and it doesn't look too complicated.