Homegoing

"The next time I hear someone say “Oh, please — slavery ended centuries ago; discrimination against African-Americans can’t only be the fault of slavery,” I’m going to recommend this book. Yaa Gyasi’s sweeping epic follows two half-sisters and their descendants; one endures the horrors of the Middle Passage to end up enslaved in America. The other remains in West Africa, under colonial rule. Gyasi’s skilled storytelling allows readers to understand that although slavery has ended, the concentric ripples of its effect continue to wash up on both shores, even today."

"I was late to Homegoing but found it extremely compelling."

""Homegoing," by Yaa Gyasi; and the brutality of what her characters endured made me sob. The history of this world is a bloody wound."

"a fascinating novel about the legacy of the slave trade on both sides of the Atlantic."