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Homegoing Audiobook by Yaa Gyasi— narrated by Dominic Hoffman
2017 Audie Award · Literary Fiction or Classics
Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing follows two half sisters in eighteenth-century Ghana and the eight generations that branch out from them, one line through slavery and America, the other staying behind on the Gold Coast. It's historical fiction built like a relay race, and it carries enormous emotional weight in a compact frame.
Why the audiobook wins
Homegoing hands a different descendant the microphone every chapter, jumping continents, centuries, and accents, and Dominic Hoffman's narration is what makes that structure work as a listen rather than a puzzle. His deep baritone shifts convincingly across Ghanaian tribal leaders, British colonists, and American slavers and their descendants, carrying the rhythms of West African English into the American chapters so the two family lines feel like one bloodline even when the settings have nothing in common. It's the kind of range that won Hoffman the 2017 Audie Award for Literary Fiction.
The relay structure, one generation handing off to the next, lands harder by ear than on the page, because Hoffman's voice is the thread connecting people who never meet. Effia at Cape Coast Castle and Esi in its dungeons below her are miles apart in the text; in audio, they're one performance apart.
Gyasi wrote eight generations into roughly thirteen hours, and Hoffman's award-winning reading makes every one of them count. One credit spans the whole family tree.
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- Who narrates the Homegoing audiobook?
- Dominic Hoffman narrates the audiobook edition of Homegoing.
- How long is the Homegoing audiobook?
- The audiobook runs 13 hr 11 min.
- Is the Homegoing audiobook worth listening to?
- We scored Homegoing 4.5 out of 5. Homegoing hands a different descendant the microphone every chapter, jumping continents, centuries, and accents, and Dominic Hoffman's narration is what makes that structure work as a listen rather than a puzzle. His deep baritone shifts convincingly across Ghanaian tribal…
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