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lyragalathynius 's review for:
The Night Masquerade
by Nnedi Okorafor
I cannot praise this book series and Nnedi Okorafor enough. I found myself in awe of how Okorafor so seemingly effortlessly is able to create such a creative and dynamic world in so few pages. She stretched the limits of my own imagination in ways that have not been challenged since childhood. In the worlds that Okorafor create, the unimaginable truly becomes tangible and visceral. She takes you beyond your imagination to create new realities and that is the highest form of art that one can encounter.
In Binti’s journey the idea of different-ness and brokenness are explored so thoroughly as to be celebratory and healing. Binti personifies chaotic good living within chaotic trauma. How does one incorporate all of those pieces of oneself that may expel us from our own society? How do we embrace our other-ness without cynicism and bitterness towards those who use it as an excuse to shun us? How can we use what makes us an outlier to shape the world around us for the better? At what point do we allow ourselves to rest in the realization of our other-ness and when does our other-ness become a call to action?
Read this series. Let it shape you. Let it move you. Let it stretch the boundaries of your imagination and allow you to live in a new and terrifyingly beautiful reality.
In Binti’s journey the idea of different-ness and brokenness are explored so thoroughly as to be celebratory and healing. Binti personifies chaotic good living within chaotic trauma. How does one incorporate all of those pieces of oneself that may expel us from our own society? How do we embrace our other-ness without cynicism and bitterness towards those who use it as an excuse to shun us? How can we use what makes us an outlier to shape the world around us for the better? At what point do we allow ourselves to rest in the realization of our other-ness and when does our other-ness become a call to action?
Read this series. Let it shape you. Let it move you. Let it stretch the boundaries of your imagination and allow you to live in a new and terrifyingly beautiful reality.