Author
Yaa Gyasi
We've read and reviewed Yaa Gyasi's historical fiction and war book Homegoing on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
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.