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Book Descriptions 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
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