A review by mackreads324
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

4.5

Beautifully woven and heartbreaking. At the end, as unrealistic as it was, I found myself longing for Marcus to find the stone left behind by his ancestor Esi. To reach a realization of who he is, how he and Marjorie are connected, and what his ancestry was. Of course he doesn’t find those things. Which is a crushing metaphor of the African diaspora and the identity/ancestry that has been taken and lost across the Atlantic.