Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Two sisters. Seven generations of consequence.
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you want to understand the full arc of the slave trade from the African coast to contemporary America in one novel
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Two half-sisters in 18th century Ghana: one marries a British slave trader, one is sold into slavery in America. Each chapter follows one of their descendants across seven generations — through the slave trade, Reconstruction, the Great Migration, the crack epidemic, to the present. Gyasi connects the dots that history usually leaves disconnected — showing that the Gold Coast and Harlem are part of the same story, that what happened in Ghana and what happened in Alabama are not separate events. The most ambitious dispatch from inside the African diaspora ever written as a novel.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Ghana • North America
- Voice
- Written by a Ghanaian author
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