A review by mgdsmile
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.0

One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Vanishing Half? Seems an unfair comparison (to all books involved). Homegoing gives the reader a taste of each generation of the two sisters' bloodlines, just one story from each family member. It's moving both to feel how each is shaped by who came before, and to feel the complexity in the topics of identity, status, purpose, and agency. I feel like I learned a good bit, particularly contextualizing different stages of African and African-American history among each other. Slavery is not simple. I know this book is fiction, but so many elements could convince you it's not—even the Cape Coast Castle is a real landmark, now open for tourism.
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