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The best novellette of the group as Binti rather impulsively returns home to make up for what her insecurities (and her family) tell her she has broken. Instead of fitting back into her home tribe, she learns of another part of her heritage and leaves behind her womanhood pilgrimage to pursue this aspect of her life in the desert, leaving behind her bonded Meduse friend Okwu in her family home. There is a lot of dealing with PTSD which is honorable as a topic but got repetitive in the ~100pages especially considering all the dropped fragments of other topics that pepper the series now (e.g. her edam called 'shame' by Meduse, her vision of flying among Saturn's rings) so that was somewhat annoying, but the world development is pretty great even if the common theme is every group and tribe acting out "we're better than you though we don't know anything about you."