Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)

by Nnedi Okorafor

I just loved space travel, had studied it on my own time, wasn’t afraid of leaving the planet alone. And I was a perfect match. Some equated it to winning the lottery, but when you have to sacrifice a decade of your life for it, when you are basically risking your life because what’s asked of you has never ever been done in human history, when you have to earn it, it’s actually not at all like winning the lottery.

My Miri had grown so much since I’d first come here so many months ago. He was about the size of a house now and looked sort of like a giant shrimp.

Binti!!!!