Recommended By Michelle C., Ĭollected for the first time in a trade paperback omnibus edition, the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning Binti trilogy, the story of one extraordinary girl's journey from her home to distant Oomza University. An unforgettable coming-of-age story, a realistic and fantastical look at intergalactic space treaties, and a bombastic slice of life that may make you regret letting your mathematical education lapse. There’s so much to love about Binti, but I’m struck most by how Nnedi Okorafor maintains a clear voice for our heroine while she is changed by and changes everyone she comes across and while she works through the ongoing trauma of the ship massacre and discovers secrets about her home and family. The experience colors Binti’s life, world, and sense of self in innumerable ways throughout the collected novellas.
Mid-way, her ship is attacked and she witnesses a horrific massacre - and has to come up with a way to survive and broker peace between two warring groups before the ship lands.
She starts her journey as an outlier, as the first-ever Himba to be accepted. Binti runs away from her beloved desert home and family on Earth to go to the most prestigious university in the galaxy.
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