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Wow. I'm a bit stunned by what a wonderful book this is ... I am amazed at with Yaa Gyasi has created with this novel. Truly amazed. This book is a masterpiece.
The story is rather simple - it's the story of two sisters and what happens to each of their families. One will marry a white man, a British official who lives in the upper part of the Cape Coast Castle. The other sister finds herself in the lower dungeons of the same castle but is sold as a slave and transported to the American South. T ...more
The story is rather simple - it's the story of two sisters and what happens to each of their families. One will marry a white man, a British official who lives in the upper part of the Cape Coast Castle. The other sister finds herself in the lower dungeons of the same castle but is sold as a slave and transported to the American South. T ...more
2.5 stars?
The beginning had me 100%. I was fascinated by Esi and Effia (specially Effia's story) but as the generations went by, I felt less connected to the characters. They were short and sad snippets of other people's lives and the only connection seemed to be knowing that they were Esi/Effia's descendants (there were barely no other connections or references?). As soon as I cared, the chapter seemed to end and we'd move on to someone new. So, in short, I thought this was a family saga (and i ...more
The beginning had me 100%. I was fascinated by Esi and Effia (specially Effia's story) but as the generations went by, I felt less connected to the characters. They were short and sad snippets of other people's lives and the only connection seemed to be knowing that they were Esi/Effia's descendants (there were barely no other connections or references?). As soon as I cared, the chapter seemed to end and we'd move on to someone new. So, in short, I thought this was a family saga (and i ...more
This was wonderful.
This novel tells the story of two branches of a Ghanian family--one that stayed in Ghana and one that was kidnapped into American slavery--alternating the chapters by generation and by region (i.e. first generation in Ghana, then first generation in America, second generation in Ghana and so forth). What Gyasi tries to do, and succeeds in doing, is telling the entire history of White Colonialism in western Africa and of the slave trade, as conducted both by White and Black tr ...more
This novel tells the story of two branches of a Ghanian family--one that stayed in Ghana and one that was kidnapped into American slavery--alternating the chapters by generation and by region (i.e. first generation in Ghana, then first generation in America, second generation in Ghana and so forth). What Gyasi tries to do, and succeeds in doing, is telling the entire history of White Colonialism in western Africa and of the slave trade, as conducted both by White and Black tr ...more
4.5 stars
Powerful debut novel
Powerful debut novel
May 27, 2016
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