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Dec 28, 2017 rated it really liked it
HomeGoing by Yaa Gyasi follows two Ghanaian sisters and their descendants. Effia is sold to a white British lord, living in Africa to negotiate the slave trade. Esi is captured, and kept in the dungeon of the Castle where her sister (Effia) lives as the "wench" wife of a British trader, until she is sent through the Middle Passage to America, into slavery. As we meet each descendant (seven generations over 300 hundred years)we see how the legacy of slavery plays out across history, both for the ...more
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A beautiful and heartbreaking story. A story that made me long for my connections and long to know my own ancestors. I loved it!
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