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A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth century Ghana Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle s dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast s booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery One thread of Homegoing follows Effia s descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization The other thread follows Esi and her children into America From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation Generation after generation, Yaa Gyasi s magisterial first novel sets the fate of the individual against the obliterating movements of time, delivering unforgettable characters whose lives were shaped by historical forces beyond their control Homegoing is a tremendous reading experience, not to be missed, by an astonishingly gifted young writer. Free Read eBook Homegoing Author Yaa Gyasi – kino-fada.fr What I know now, my son Evil begets evil It grows It transmutes, so that sometimes you cannot see that the evil in the world began as the evil in your own home4 1 2 stars Homegoing is an incredible and horrific look at history, colonialism and slavery in Ghana and America, across 250 years How the author managed to create such rich characters, cover so much history, and tell such a complex, but compelling story in only 300 pages, I do not know.I recently said in my review of East of EdWhat I know now, my son Evil begets evil It grows It transmutes, so that sometimes you cannot see that the evil in the world began as the evil in your own home4 1 2 stars Homegoing...Homegoing is a very confident debut novel Exceptionally engaging and the strongest case for reparations and black rage I ve read in a long time Seriously, white men are the devil The most interesting part of this novel, the structure, also becomes the most frustrating part of the novel The story starts with two sisters who are never allowed to know each other, and what becomes of the generations they beget, starting in 18th century Ghana The novel beautifully explores the slave trade and im Homegoing is a very confident debut novel Exceptionally engaging and the strongest case for reparations and black rage I ve read in a long time Seriously, white men are the devil The most interesting part of this novel, the structure, also becomes the most frustrating part of the novel The story starts with two sisters who are never allowed to know each other, and what becomes of the generations they beget, starting in 18th century Ghana The novel beautifully explores the slave trade and imagines life in Ghana at that time, and as we move forward through time, from one generation to the next, we see what slavery becomes in the US, and how it changes Ghana The early chapters are rich and immersive and I could not put the book down I am impressed by the magnitude of the novel s ambition and how much research went into feeling like the author had, herself, seen Af...I give 5 shining stars to Yaa Gyasi s Homegoing, the best debut novel I have read this year In this semi autobiographical tale, Gyasi follows the family histories of two half sisters, Effia the beauty and Esi to reveal how their families end up Each chapter is a vignette focusing on a family member in subsequent generations, alternating between Effia and Esi s families until we reach present day Here are their until now largely untold stories Effia the beauty had been raised by her step moth I give 5 shining stars to Yaa Gyasi s Homegoing, the best debut novel I have read this year In this semi autobiographical tale, Gyasi follows the family histories of two half sisters, Effia the beauty and Esi to reveal how their families end up Each chapter is a vignette focusing on a family member in subsequent generations, alternating between Effia and Esi s families unt...Read for Book Riot s 2017 Read Harder reading challenge 24 Read a book wherein all point of view characters are people of colorThe premise for this book is amazing Two sisters are separated at birth, and each alternating chapter follows a descendant of each sister Great, right My biggest issue was that this feltlike a collection of short stories than a novel There s nothing wrong with that necessarily, but it just wasn t my cup of tea When I read a novel, I want to feel con...Stunned, just absolutely stunned that this is a d but novel Spanning centuries and continents, the novel follows two families, one from the slave trading Fante nation and another from the Asante warrior nation, in the British colony that is now Ghana Stepsisters, who are unaware of each others existence, one will marry a white man, a British official who lives in the upper part of the Cape Coast Castle The other, in the lower dungeons of the same castle and sold as a slave, transported to the Stunned, just absolutely stunned that this is a d but novel Spanning centuries and continents, the novel follows two families, one from the slave trading Fante nation and...This multigenerational epic has already gotten lots of attention, and it deserves every bit of it Gyasi s debut novel begins with two half sisters in 18th century Ghana, strangers to each other Effia marries a white man, and Esi is enslaved and taken to America The novel follows the children of these two women through the generations, alternating between Africa and America As we meet each new descendent, we see how the legacy of slavery plays out across history, both for the enslaved and for...congratulations semifinalist in goodreads best historical fiction category 2016We believe the one who has the power He is the one who gets to write the story So, when you study history, you must always ask yourself, whose story am I missing Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth Once you have figured that out, you must find that story, too From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture this is a shockingly good debut novel it saccura congratulations semifinalist in goodreads best historical fiction category 2016We believe the one who has the power He is the one who gets to write the story So, when you study history, you must always ask yourself, whose story am I missing Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth Once you have figured that out, you must find that story, too From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture this is a shockingly good debut novel it saccurately classified as a novel in stories, although there is a strong connective thread binding them together it opens in th...And so they waited Ness and Sam and Kojo, working longer and harder in the fields than any of the other slaves so that even the Devil began to smile at the mention of their names They waited out the fall and then winter, listening for the sound that would tell them it was time, praying that they wouldn t be sold and separated before their chance came Homegoing was one of the Fiction books nominated for best books of the year by members on Goodreads It made the first round cut I m on a m And so they waited Ness and Sam and Kojo, working longer and harder in the fields than any of the other slaves so that even the Devil began to smile at the mention of their names They waited out the fall and then winter, listening for the sound that would tell them it was time, praying that they wouldn t be sold and separated before their chance came Homegoing was one of the Fiction books nominated for best books of the year by members on Goodreads It made the first round cut I m on a mission to read other desired TBR nominated books before the year is up Since there are many wonderful, HOMEGOING re...My heart hurts and there is not enough Ben and Jerry s in this world to soothe it After reading Homegoing I am literally spent This is not a bad thing This is just a very sad novel Homegoing covers the mid 18th Century to present times It follows two different tribes in Ghana Fante and Asante , two different families, and specifically two half sisters, Effia and Esi and their offspring The sisters know nothing of each other Both sisters are living in Ghana One sister stays in Ghana a My heart hurts and there is not enough Ben and Jerry s in this world to soothe it After reading Homegoing I am literally spent This is not a bad thing This is just a very sad novel Homegoing covers the mid 18th Century to present times It follows two different tribes in Ghana Fante and Asante , two different families, and specifically two half sisters, Effia and Esi and their offspring The sisters know nothing of each other Both sisters are living in Ghana One sister stays in Ghana and marries a British soldier working in the slave trade although the soldier is married to another woman in England and has a family there as well while the other sister is sold into slavery and is shipped to America Why did I give it 4 Stars as opposed to 5 The book was too much for me It spanned too much time and there were too many characters in it I felt part one was a solid 5 extremely powerful stars Part two was 3.5 stars because it felt a...Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend Homegoing is a multi generational saga that follows the descendants of two half sisters, Effia and Esi, across three centuries, beginning in eighteenth century Ghana and arriving at the present day Each chapter of Homegoing introduces a new character, which means readers are subjected to endless amounts of backstory seamlessly integrated albeit wearisome In many cases, when a character s story reaches i Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend Homegoing is a multi generational saga that follows the descendants of two half sisters, Effia and Esi, across three centuries, beginning in eighteenth century Ghana and arriving at the present day Each chapter of Homegoing introduces a new character, which means readers are subjected to endless amounts of backstory seamlessly integrated albeit wearisome In many cases, when a character s story reaches its apex, the chapter ends, giving no immediate sense of resolution Two chap...

Homegoing
  • English
  • 10 September 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 300 pages
  • 1101947136
  • Yaa Gyasi
  • Homegoing