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from bookmuse56

Homegoing is a richly evocative, superbly crafted debut novel. The storyline follows two half-sisters born in rivaling rural villages in Ghana, and their descendents for seven generations from the late 1700s to the present. Effia will be married off to a white British slaver and lives a grand lif...

from katiekrug

LOVED this. It's an epic story of the slave trade and colonialism in West Africa and the effect of slavery and loss of identity in the US. Gyasi tells this story brilliantly through what amounts to linked short stories, moving generation by generation, and following two parallel paths - one in wh...

from lit_chick

"Before Esi left, the one called Governor looked at her and smiled. It was a kind smile, pitying, yet true. But for the rest of her life Esi would see a smile on a white face and remember the one the soldier gave her before taking her to his quarters, how white men smiling just meant more evil wa...

from EBT1002

"We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So wen 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 th...

from lauralkeet

We 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. (p226)...