5/19/2023 0 Comments Homegoing yaa![]() ![]() It’s a quality they share with their creator, Gyasi. And while each descendant experiences life (and blackness and love and family) in distinct ways, these characters have at least one thing in common: the inability to ignore a certain call they hear, sometimes in their minds, sometimes in their very bones, from those who came before them. The book, an overwhelming page-turner-as addictive as a binge-worthy TV show-follows their two bloodlines all the way to the present day. Effia is from Fanteland and marries a British slave dealer, while Esi, a member of the Asante nation, is sold into slavery. ![]() In Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel Homegoing, every character granted his or her own chapter is a descendent of two 18th-century, Ghanaian half-sisters. ![]()
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