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Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing

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Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Oprah.com, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, Mother Jones, BuzzFeed, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters, Effia and Esi, 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 notorious Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and shipped off to America to be sold into slavery.

With breathtaking scope, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the slave traders of the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the Asantes' struggle against British colonialism to the first stirrings of the American Civil War, from the jazz of twentieth-century Harlem to the sparkling shores of modern Ghana. 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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"Homegoing is an inspiration." Ta-Nehisi Coates

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"Magical.... Hypnotic.... Yaa Gyasi [is] a stirringly gifted writer." The New York Times Book Review

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"Powerful.... Compelling.... Illuminating." The Boston Globe

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"[Toni Morrison’s] influence is palpable in Gyasi’s historicity and lyricism; she shares Morrison’s uncanny ability to crystalize, in a single event, slavery’s moral and emotional fallout.... No novel has better illustrated the way in which racism became institutionalized in this country." Vogue

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"[A] commanding debut... will stay with you long after you’ve finished reading. When people talk about all the things fiction can teach its readers, they’re talking about books like this." Marie Claire

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"A remarkable feat — a novel at once epic and intimate, capturing the moral weight of history as it bears down on individual struggles, hopes, and fears. A tremendous debut." Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment

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"Thanks to Ms. Gyasi’s instinctive storytelling gifts, the book leaves the reader with a visceral understanding of both the savage realities of slavery and the emotional damage that is handed down, over the centuries.... By its conclusion, the characters’ tales of loss and resilience have acquired an inexorable and cumulative emotional weight." The New York Times

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"Brims with compassion.... Yaa Gyasi has given rare and heroic voice to the missing and suppressed." NPR

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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.

One of Oprah's Best Books of the Year and a PEN/Hemingway award winner, 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.

A New York Times Notable Book


About the Author

Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in New York City.

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Carlos Gil , January 21, 2019 (view all comments by Carlos Gil)
The author is new, judging from details included in the Acknowledgements, and so I consider this work a notable and promising effort. While the book cover suggests an African theme, the story is both African and African American. It traces a set of related individuals over several generations, from before the rise of the slave trade in western Africa to Jim Crow America. Given the trans-generational framework, the reader is challenged to remember the characters from the previous periods; I had a difficult time making the connections. I did find the American scenarios most compelling and best fleshed out. I consider the effort praiseworthy although I caution the reader about fellow-author testimonies as I find them misleading at times, and this is one of them.

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Rachel Coker , April 18, 2017 (view all comments by Rachel Coker)
"Homegoing" presents the crime, heartbreak & lasting wounds of slavery through multiple generations of a family originally from what today is Ghana. This is Yaa Gyasi's debut novel, but you'd never know it as you read one compelling story after another, striding forward from the 1700s to the present.

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9781101971062
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Publication date:
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Publisher:
Vintage
Pages:
320
Height:
.80IN
Width:
5.10IN
Author:
Yaa Gyasi

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