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Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure.
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Avice is cut off from her old contacts and the similes have disbanded.
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Meanwhile, we learn a bit about why Avice and the similes drift apart, what Avice did to cross CalVin, her doppel-lovers.
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And then another suicide: Vin, who loved Avice I think, kills himself.
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Avice is now part of the language of the Hosts.
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Avice is, of course, horrified by what she sees there.
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And we see how Avice and Scile drift apart.
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There is the beginning of twin roles for Avice.
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Beehive, as he is coloquially referred to by the similes (Avice and her fellow Language-d humans) or Surl Tesh-echer as his name is translated into Anglo-Ubiq, is becoming a somewhat frightening figure.
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Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyalties to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak yet speaks through her.
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