Bookish Blerd

Wow!  The author describes this in such an amazing way.  I can truly visualize what is happening in the story.

It's a year after the first story, Binti and her Meduse counterpart, Okwu are studying at the university.  She is suffering from PTSD, and the changes that overtook her body after her initial encounter with the Meduse.  She decides to return home to complete her pilgrimage which is a tradition for the women of her people.

Okwu goes to earth with her.  Her family welcomes her home, but later berates her for leaving home and insist that her leaving is the cause of her father's deteriorating health.  Later she sees a vision of the Night Masquerade, which only men are supposed to be able to see.  The "Desert People" come for her.  Everyone sees them as 'savages', including the Himba, which man they have nerve considering the Khoush (the other human race on earth) sees them as 'savages', but I digress.  It turns out that Binti, through her father, is a relation to the "Desert People", the Enyi Zinariya, and they are not savages at all but quite advanced and have been since before the rest of the planet had even begun to communicate outside of earth.

Now she is of three people, Himba, Meduse, and Enyi Zinariya and she's even more confused than every before.  But now there is also a war coming.  

The story continues to fascinate me.  I'm looking forward to the next book.