6/6/2023 0 Comments Homecoming novel yaa gyasi![]() ![]() Gyasi has delivered something unbelievably tough to pull off: a centuries-spanning epic of interlinked short stories. Yaa Gyasi a stirringly gifted writer.” - The New York Times Book Review ![]() Essential reading.” - San Francisco Chronicle Yaa Gyasi has given rare and heroic voice to the missing and suppressed.” -NPR Truly captivating.” - The Washington Post ![]() “Spellbinding.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune “A beautiful story.” -Trevor Noah, The Daily Show “I could not put this book down.” -Roxane Gay “Homegoing is an inspiration.” -Ta-Nehisi Coates And yes, it all comes together at the end. For an episodic novel with a different protagonist in each chapter, it’s surprising how connected I became to the characters, but such is Gyasi’s skill as a novelist. While I’ve read a number of books about the legacy of slavery, Homegoing’s take on African involvement is a different perspective, showing how tribes were prodded into warfare, manipulated by the Europeans. Gyasi tells the story of their descendants, one generation at a time, in Ghana and the United States. ![]() Two half-sisters in Ghana living in the 1700s are separated by a continent, when one is married off to a British commander and the other is sold into slavery. ![]()
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