Midnight Robber

Nalo Hopkinson · first published 2000 · ISBN 9780613279765

An epic across two worlds. On Toussaint, an advanced orbital settlement, a young woman named Tan-Tan learns carnival traditions and hears stories of the Midnight Robber, a legendary figure who steals from the rich. When her father's violence becomes unbearable, she escapes to New Half-Way Tree, a primitive exile world, where she becomes the myth herself: the Robber Queen, surviving by her wits and the old stories.