![]() She wants to participate in the ritual for her to become an adult woman of her tribe and be grounded in the tradition of her home. She finds her place at the university, but the adjustment is hard and after a year, she comes home with her alien companion. Binti, as a harmonizer, helps to solve the immediate problem and bring about a peace, but at great personal cost to herself. During the space travel everyone on board expect for her is massacred as part of a long feud. There are three distinct parts here, but the story is a single story.īinti, in part one, secretly leaves her traditional African village home to enter an alien university against the wishes of her family. ![]() I assume that these will be packaged together in a single volume at some point. ![]() The Night Masquerade is the third part to what is really a single long novel. And sometimes those from our own culture or family are less close than those aliens that are adopted into out family. Part of what is important about reading an African author writing alien stories is that she points out that sometimes those of different human cultures are actually just as alien as the actual aliens. Part of what is important about alien stories is that they are alien. ![]() And now she also brought war to her home. Summary: Binti returned home to try to find stability, she found more confusion realizing that the home she thought she understood was not what she understood. ![]()
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