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Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
3.5/4
Homegoing is actually a collection of stories that follows the descendants of two estranged sisters Effia and Esi, and it stretches in timeframe of about 300 years. We meet a lot of characters in different places in life, starting in Africa in 1700s and ending in America in present time. From small huts in rural Africa to crowded streets of Harlem, we follow their ups and downs, their relationships and loves, their struggiling to find a way of life that suits them and a place they fit in. It is an extremly sad book, cause it shows the way that men in power always have designed the destiny of the weaker ones, and it discusses slavery, rape, drug abuse, child molesting...These people fall down and try to get up only to be pushed down again. Some of them do manage to find the 'right' way, so it kinda gives us some hope for things to be good in the end. ⠀
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What I didnt like is that the stories were short and you didnt really get to care about the characters. As Im an extremely emotional reader, this was the thing that bugged me the most. I did love how the ending wrapped thigns up in a kind of a closed circle and that it showed how every step and decision in our ancestors lives has brought us right up to the place we are now. ⠀
Homegoing is actually a collection of stories that follows the descendants of two estranged sisters Effia and Esi, and it stretches in timeframe of about 300 years. We meet a lot of characters in different places in life, starting in Africa in 1700s and ending in America in present time. From small huts in rural Africa to crowded streets of Harlem, we follow their ups and downs, their relationships and loves, their struggiling to find a way of life that suits them and a place they fit in. It is an extremly sad book, cause it shows the way that men in power always have designed the destiny of the weaker ones, and it discusses slavery, rape, drug abuse, child molesting...These people fall down and try to get up only to be pushed down again. Some of them do manage to find the 'right' way, so it kinda gives us some hope for things to be good in the end. ⠀
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What I didnt like is that the stories were short and you didnt really get to care about the characters. As Im an extremely emotional reader, this was the thing that bugged me the most. I did love how the ending wrapped thigns up in a kind of a closed circle and that it showed how every step and decision in our ancestors lives has brought us right up to the place we are now. ⠀