# Homegoing - Hardcover

by **Yaa Gyasi** (Author)

**Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize  
A _New York Times_ 2016 Notable Book  
One of Oprah's 10 Favorite Books of 2016  
NPR's Debut Novel of the Year  
One of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books Of 2016  
One of _Time_'s Top 10 Novels of 2016**

"_Homegoing_ is an inspiration." --Ta-Nehisi Coates

The unforgettable _New York Times_ best seller begins with the story of two half-sisters, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a British slaver. Written with tremendous sweep and power, _Homegoing_ traces the generations of family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history, each life indeliably drawn, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day.

Effia and Esi are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of _Homegoing_ follows Effia's descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, _Homegoing_ makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.

### Author Biography

**YAA GYASI** was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she held a Dean's Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn.

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1.3 x 9.5 x 6.5 IN

**Publication Date:** June 07, 2016

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Homegoing

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 6

**Point Value:** 18

## Details

- **Price:** 30.0 USD
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