I continued the series with the next audiobook narrated by the same person, Robin Miles. I love the artwork on the cover of this one. Binti's former adversary Okwu, a Meduse, is now a good friend, almost a sibling. I did not grasp the change that happened to Binti near the end of the first novella, but it is clear now that she has been injected with some Meduse DNA, and her dreads are now freely moving Medusen tentacles. Binti and Okwu have spent a year at University building new lives amongst many different aliens. Binti feels called to return home for a cleansing pilgrimage. This middle part of the trilogy is really about how going away to college changes you and your home is not the comforting place you once knew. I relate to Binti's character so much. Meanwhile, the alien technology that Binti found when she was eight that came in so handy in the first book, which she has been learning to use at University, breaks. Binti's family is generally polite, but they still think of Okwu as a monster. Binti also learns about her family's bias against the more "savage" people who live in the desert hinterland. They are her father's people and they have different "harmonizer" abilities to communicate over great distances using alien nano-technology. There are some external plot developments, but we really delve into Binti's internal life, the rejection she feels from her family, the confusion she feels about her path.
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