Where my story-brain was annoyed, perplexed, disappointed, my academic brain poked at the distance between the book and my enjoyment, held up my feelings to the light. My story-loving brain often took a back seat to my academic brain while reading. What I got, instead, was a book that seemed to know exactly where it wanted to end up but utterly indifferent to how it got there. From 'African girl becomes home,' I expected the third book to synthesise the material in the previous two, to give some sense of completion and a new, different wholeness. Binti left her Himba family on Earth in order to travel to Oomza University, far beyond the stars she left Oomza in an attempt to manage her trauma and find herself again in the deserts of her home and there, in the desert, she incorporated new revelations about her history into the anthology of herself, before being shocked into an awareness of impending doom.īut Okorafor has also warned 'Don't go into the story expecting specific things because of the label slapped on it' - a warning I should've perhaps taken to include her own description of the trilogy. African girl becomes home.' It's a beautiful proposed structure, a Hero's Journey that rings truer for me than Joseph Campbell's, resonating deeply with my experiences of diaspora, roots, and community. Nnedi Okorafor's Binti trilogy is now complete: The Night Masquerade is the final instalment in a series she's described as 'African girl leaves home. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. The Binti Series Book 1: Binti Book 2: Binti: Home Book 3: Binti: The Night Masquerade At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Night Masquerade Author Nnedi Okorafor Don't miss this essential concluding volume in the Binti trilogy. Once again it is up to Binti, and her intriguing new friend Mwinyi, to intervene-though the elders of her people do not entirely trust her motives-and try to prevent a war that could wipe out her people, once and for all. Far from her village when the conflicts start, Binti hurries home, but anger and resentment has already claimed the lives of many close to her. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient rivalry with the Meduse.

Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI.

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