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Homegoing
A Literary Fiction Novel by Yaa Gyasi
Subgenres:
- Historical Fiction,
- Multi-Generational Family Saga,
- Slavery
This book is for you if you're into...
- Multi-generational sagas tracing family lines across continents
- Stories confronting the legacy of slavery from both sides of history
- Narratives where sisters' fates shape generations to come
From Little Stack
Inspired by a trip to Ghana, where she was born, Yaa Gyasi wrote this startling debut novel about a family's dual journeys across generations.
Effia and Esi are half-sisters raised together in a small village where hopes for their future are low. Effia is married off to a British merchant while Esi ends up held captive in the dungeons of Cape Coast Castle, which Effia's husband rules over as governor. Homegoing follows both women's lineages, divided by race, class, and colonialism's insidious power.
Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.
Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi's extraordinary novel illuminates slavery's troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.
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