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Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

Start date: March 22, 2017

Finish date: March 31, 2017

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Sep 24, 2019 Lillawa rated it it was amazing

Best piece of fiction I read this year. Best book I’ve ever read on the legacy of slavery. Shows us on a personal level, how it affected the real lives of individuals. —> Should be required reading in schools.

Heartbreaking, wise, educational, well-written, surprising and inspiring - loved it.

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Jul 23, 2022 Avigail rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, kindle, library, borrowed, ebook, 2022, podcast-rec, youtube-rec

Homegoing is a book with a lot of hype, and I am a reader who likes to read exciting books when the stardust has settled down a little bit. It is incredible that Yaa Gyasi wrote this unique debut story only at the age of 25. Some parts of the story reminded me of the TV series Roots.
Reading the book, I felt that Yaa Gyasi writes so fondly about her heritage, and the story has two sides of the coin. Yes, during the time people from Africa were captured and enslaved to get to America, the UK, a ...more

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Feb 27, 2022 Lauren rated it really liked it

4.5 ⭐️

This book is an multigenerational longview of two branches from the same family who experience very different fates.

It would make for a great TV series but, as a book, it takes a lot of effort to keep the stories straight and understand the passage of time.

If you usually listen to audiobooks, make sure to get the print edition, or at least a pic of the family tree within it. Either way, I recommend that you read one character per day—only. Otherwise, you have no hope of remembering the u ...more

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