Homegoing: a novel/ Yaa Gyasi.
Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. One of Oprah's Best Books of the Year and a PEN/Hemingway award winner, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi's extraordinary novel illuminates slavery's troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed;and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation. A New York Times Notable Book
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- ISBN: 9781101947142 (electronic bk)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Target Audience Note: | Text Difficulty 4 - Text Difficulty 5 UG/Upper grades (9th-12) 910 Lexile. 6 ATOS Level |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Vintage, 2016. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 6571 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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Subject: | Fiction. African American Fiction. Historical Fiction. Literature. |
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Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. One of Oprah's Best Books of the Year and a PEN/Hemingway award winner, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi's extraordinary novel illuminates slavery's troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed;and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation. A New York Times Notable Book