Homegoing: A novel

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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, Winner of 2017 PEN Hemingway award for debut fiction. “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. Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf; First Edition (June 7, 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1101947136
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 35
• Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 910L
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.38 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.67 x 1.13 x 9.52 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #40,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #91 in Black & African American Historical Fiction (Books) #931 in Family Saga Fiction #3,371 in Literary Fiction (Books)
• #91 in Black & African American Historical Fiction (Books)