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Download * Homegoing: A novel PDF by * Yaa Gyasi eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Homegoing: A novel Starts in fire, ends in water; a story of the horrors we inflict and the promise of redemption. Astonishing. RobynJC Homegoing begins in fire, as a house slave sets herself free by burning her master's African village to the ground, and ends in the ocean, as two of her two descendants - from two completely different lineages - find, finally, perhaps, a sort of reconciliation. In between, Ms. Gyasi traces the entire history of Africa and African-Americans. For the slave, Maame, had two daughters:
| Title | : | Homegoing: A novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.46 (783 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1101947136 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-08 |
| Language | : | English |
Starts in fire, ends in water; a story of the horrors we inflict and the promise of redemption. Astonishing. RobynJC Homegoing begins in fire, as a house slave sets herself free by burning her master's African village to the ground, and ends in the ocean, as two of her two descendants - from two completely different lineages - find, finally, perhaps, a sort of reconciliation. In between, Ms. Gyasi traces the entire history of Africa and African-Americans. For the slave, Maame, had two daughters: the daughter of her captor, who she left behind in the burning village; and th. An Amazing First Novel on the African Diaspora Robert B. Lamm How I wish Amazon would let us give 4½-star reviews. I don't think this is a perfect book. The characters are somewhat flat and predictable, and because of the way Ms Gyasi has decided to tell her story -- more like a group of related stories than a novel -- it's hard to get close to them; just as you think you're getting there, the story stops and you're on to the next generation and/or a different continent. The plot is also somewhat -- though not e. Helen L. Worcester said Read it for the history. I am giving this book Read it for the history I am giving this book 3 1/2 stars. This is the 3rd book I have read recently which spans several centuries and many generations of more than one family tree. Books written in this vein have too many characters to even keep track of or remember, let alone to get really involved with. There are many interesting stories and characters who would have been enough for one whole book dedicated to their story alone, but as soon as I got interested in their story, th. 1/"Read it for the history" according to Helen L. Worcester. I am giving this book Read it for the history I am giving this book 3 1/2 stars. This is the 3rd book I have read recently which spans several centuries and many generations of more than one family tree. Books written in this vein have too many characters to even keep track of or remember, let alone to get really involved with. There are many interesting stories and characters who would have been enough for one whole book dedicated to their story alone, but as soon as I got interested in their story, th. 1/2 stars. This is the Read it for the history I am giving this book 3 1/2 stars. This is the 3rd book I have read recently which spans several centuries and many generations of more than one family tree. Books written in this vein have too many characters to even keep track of or remember, let alone to get really involved with. There are many interesting stories and characters who would have been enough for one whole book dedicated to their story alone, but as soon as I got interested in their story, th. rd book I have read recently which spans several centuries and many generations of more than one family tree. Books written in this vein have too many characters to even keep track of or remember, let alone to get really involved with. There are many interesting stories and characters who would have been enough for one whole book dedicated to their story alone, but as soon as I got interested in their story, th. stars. This is the Read it for the history I am giving this book 3 1/2 stars. This is the 3rd book I have read recently which spans several centuries and many generations of more than one family tree. Books written in this vein have too many characters to even keep track of or remember, let alone to get really involved with. There are many interesting stories and characters who would have been enough for one whole book dedicated to their story alone, but as soon as I got interested in their story, th. rd book I have read recently which spans several centuries and many generations of more than one family tree. Books written in this vein have too many characters to even keep track of or remember, let alone to get really involved with. There are many interesting stories and characters who would have been enough for one whole book dedicated to their story alone, but as soon as I got interested in their story, th
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.. 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. 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
. 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 Berkeley, California
It honestly and elegantly tries to unravel the complicated history of not only a family through the generations, but a nation through the years of outside conflict, inner turmoil, and one of the darker pieces of the past.”—Sadie L. Trombetta, Bustle. Gyasi is deeply concerned with the sin of selling humans on Africans, not Europeans. Each chapter is tightly plotted, and there are suspenseful, even spectacular climaxes.” —Christian Lorentzen,New York Magazine“Gripping.” —Sam Sacks,Wall Street Journal“A memorable epic of changing families and changing nations.”—Chicago Tribune"Remarkablecompellingpowerful."—Rebecca Steinitz, Boston Globe"Epicastonishingpage-turning."—Entertainment Weekly“The arrival of a major new voice in American literature”—Poets
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