I owe a debt of gratitude to Dickinson for giving me this moment. Hungry for knowledge, for knowledge offered to me because of my talents by the “civilized West.” Knowledge that I might use to make my parents back home happy. Like Baru, I had to learn it all.įinally, a protagonist experiencing what I really experienced as a post-colonial immigrant student. I was always a curious child: I participated in quiz contests, math Olympiads, and one summer I hand-copied three encyclopedias cover to cover for fun. Then I can go home and I will know how to make Solit happy again.
I must name every star and sin, find the secrets of treaty-writing and world-changing. In the scene, the titular Baru has just been accepted to the new colonial school on her island: It was 2015 and I was finishing my graduate degree at North Carolina State University. There is a scene quite early in The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson that I vividly remember reading.
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