Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing: Genre 1 key example

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As it does with Esi and Effia, Homegoing makes siblings of history and fiction. Gyasi’s sprawling novel follows the two half-sisters and their seven generations of descendants from the dawn of the slave trade to the present. What results is a lush family tree and complex accounting of more than 200 years of history.