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Penguin Readers Level 7: Homegoing (ELT Graded Reader) by Yaa Gyasi

43 reviews

hannahbailey's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Child death, Blood, Death, Child abuse, Slavery, War, Kidnapping, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Xenophobia, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Gun violence, Death of parent, Confinement, Bullying, Mental illness, Grief, and Deportation

jordynkw's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Torture, Addiction, Drug use, Genocide, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, War, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Colonisation, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Rape, Hate crime, Pregnancy, and Racial slurs

shanapike's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Excrement, Drug abuse, Classism, War, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Infidelity, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Infertility, Confinement, Blood, Colonisation, and Addiction

catwhisperer's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Classism, Confinement, Grief, Excrement, Mental illness, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, War, Abandonment, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Trafficking, Vomit, Xenophobia, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, and Sexual assault

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I don't have words for how incredible Homegoing is. The blurb cannot do justice to the journey it takes you on. Two Ghanaian half-sisters with divergent paths (one as a wife to a white colonizer and slaver, the other captured and sold into slavery) is only the beginning. This book follows Effia and Esi's lineage for seven generations, one line primarily in Ghana and one line primarily in the United States. It is a sizzering, raw, unflinchingly honest depiction of the experience and the legacy of the slave trade, in all its awful minutia; the creation and the evolution of the systems that still oppress black people. Truly, I've never seen a clearer depiction of generational trauma. It's incredible. That's all I can say. Cannot recommend enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Suicide, Mental illness, and Ableism

Minor: Car accident and Medical content

massivepizzacrust's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

To me, this is an almost perfect book. Haunting, ambitious, executed so well. It gave me nightmares and I couldn't stop reading it. If I had any complaint at all, it would be that I wanted most chapters to be a little longer because I wanted to know the characters better. Not necessarily longer in the timeline, just more of the characters' thoughts and feelings. 
I need to think about that ending more but I don't think that'll be a problem because this book will stay with me for a long time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Slavery, Addiction, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Excrement, Murder, Gore, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

mondovertigo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Slavery, Racial slurs, Misogyny, and Racism

Moderate: Excrement, Addiction, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Confinement, Child death, Abandonment, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit

scifi_rat's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Plot: 5★
Prose: 4.5★
Pace: 5 ★
Concept/Execution: 5★/5★
Characters: 4.75★
Worldbuilding: 4.75★
Ending: 4.75★

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Colonisation, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Classism, Excrement, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Addiction, Drug use, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Trafficking, Violence, Vomit, War, Blood, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Domestic abuse

124smilehd's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

It was cool to see how two half-sisters and their descendants' lives are changed due to the slave trade, where one family benefited from it and the other was a victim of it. Both families faced their own hardships and I loved the constant reference to fire within the novel. It was almost 5 stars for me but I just wanted a little bit more from each character, as each chapter was a different characters perspective, although the previous generation are still mentioned and involved. The stone played less of an important part than I thought it would as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Colonisation, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Excrement, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Addiction, and Confinement

lizclark81's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

A powerful read about the generational trauma of slavery in West Africa and the United States. Cleverly structured around multiple characters in different time periods, Gyasi weaves together a narrative that manages to touch on many important issues in history. A little heavy-handed at times, IMO, but a well-crafted first novel with serious themes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Racism, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, and Slavery

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Colonisation, and Torture