Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

Highlights

I was uncomfortable that day. Similar to the Meduse, in my family, one does not go to a stranger and spill her deepest thoughts and fears. You go to a family member and if not, you hold it in, deep, close to the heart, even if it tore you up inside.
<Binti: Home>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 29 | Location 236-237  2020-07-18 00:43:14



In some ways, Himba and Khoush were like night and day, but in matters of girlhood and womanhood and control, we were the same.
<Binti: Home>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 30 | Location 245-246  2020-07-18 00:44:05



When I was five, I had asked my mother what it was like to give birth. She smiled and said that giving birth was the act of stepping back and letting your body take over.
<Binti: Home>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 155 | Location 1419-1420  2020-07-20 00:36:41


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