A review by callanisreading
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

Beginning with two half-sisters in the Gold Coast of Ghana, each unaware of the other's existence, Homegoing follows eight generations of descendants who forge parallel paths in Ghana and America. Each child bears an inheritance of trauma, with the echoes of their shared history made tangible in their dreams, their inexplicable intuitions, or their destinies to repeat family history. In her sweeping debut novel, Gyasi chronicles the terrible legacy of enslavement and the damage it continues to inflict.