By Yaa Gyasi
THE SUNDAY instances BESTSELLER
Selected for Granta's better of younger American Novelists 2017
Winner of the nationwide ebook Critics Circle Award for top First Book
Shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
Effia and Esi: sisters with very various destinies. One offered into slavery; one a slave trader's spouse. the implications in their destiny reverberate in the course of the generations that stick to. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the missionary faculties of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem, spanning 3 continents and 7 generations, Yaa Gyasi has written a unbelievable novel - the intimate, gripping tale of a brilliantly bright forged of characters and during their lives the very tale of the USA itself.
Epic in its canvas and intimate in its snap shots, Homegoing is a searing and profound debut from a masterly new writer.
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