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Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi

Knopfhistorical-fictionISBN 9781101971062

About This Book

Beginning in eighteenth-century Ghana, the novel follows two half-sisters—Effia and Esi—and their descendants across seven generations, tracking one family through the slave trade, the American South, and up to present-day New York and Ghana. A multigenerational epic about the legacy of slavery and colonialism. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2017.

About the Author

Yaa GyasiGhanaian-American

Yaa Gyasi is a Ghanaian-American novelist born in Mampong, Ghana, in 1989. She grew up in Alabama and studied at Stanford University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her debut novel Homegoing (2016) won the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the American Book Award. Read more →

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