The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

by Becky Chambers

She smiled, hoping that it masked the tangle of homesickness filling her chest. She had worked so hard to get away, jumped through so many hoops, spent so many sleepless nights being afraid of getting caught, and yet . . . yet there were bugs on her plate, and artigrav nets beneath her feet, and a table full of strangers who could never know what she’d left behind. She was out in the open now, far from everything and anything that was familiar.