A review by youreadtoomuch
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

5.0

I am blown away by just how much I loved this book. It's been a while since I 've read something so entirely captivating. while a slow read, each chapter was the right amount of history and personality that made me love every single character. And yet there was not enough time spent with each character. Appreciated the moments of past reference, it felt like I got to live with the character a. bit longer.

As the story recounts the lineage of these two sisters, I was. waiting for that moment for them to merge back together as a family. How were they to know who they are to one another, could have been?

"...and had known his grandfather only as a person knows his shadow, as a figure that is there, visible but untouchable, unknowable."

"'Love her,' Cobbe commanded, as though love were as simple an act as lifting food up from an iron plate past one's lips."