A review by victri
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I don’t even know where to start with this. It covers so much with one family line split at two sisters. Incredible!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail