Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi · 2016
Literary Fiction · ranked #116 in category
Beginning in 18th-century Ghana with two half-sisters — one who marries a British coloniser and one who is sold into slavery — the novel follows each family's lineage for seven generations, to the present day. Gyasi's debut traces slavery's long reach across history and two continents in a formally ambitious generational saga.
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