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Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
challenging
reflective
sad
tense
My goodness. Yaa Gyasi has written a sweeping family epic with two branches of the family tree across several generations, packed into just over 300 pages. To me, this read like a collection of short stories until the last two chapters, with each person’s story unfolding in their own independent voice.
This is not the easiest book to read, with loads of generational trauma, but it carries hope as well. It also helps to know some of the history in both the U.S. and the Asante Empire/Ghana, since Gyasi did not take the space to explain all those threads (or else the book would surely triple in size.)
Each person felt very real to me. I want to know more about each of their lives, and yet, I deeply appreciate the full arc of history and family shown in this novel.
I listened to part of this on audio, and the narrator is excellent.
This is not the easiest book to read, with loads of generational trauma, but it carries hope as well. It also helps to know some of the history in both the U.S. and the Asante Empire/Ghana, since Gyasi did not take the space to explain all those threads (or else the book would surely triple in size.)
Each person felt very real to me. I want to know more about each of their lives, and yet, I deeply appreciate the full arc of history and family shown in this novel.
I listened to part of this on audio, and the narrator is excellent.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War