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themes of slavery, violence and generational trauma
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Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
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"No one forgets that they were once captive, even if they are now free."
Homegoing begins in eighteenth-century Ghana with two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, born into different villages and vastly different fates.
Effia is married to an Englishman and lives in comfort inside Cape Coast Castle. Unknown to her, her sister Esi is imprisoned in the castle’s dungeons below before being sold into the transatlantic slave trade and sent to America.
From that moment forward, their family lines diverge—one remaining in West Africa, the other enduring generations of slavery and its aftermath in America.
Spanning three hundred years, Homegoing follows their descendants through war, colonization, the Civil War, the Great Migration, and into the present day.
Through interconnected lives and stories, Yaa Gyasi reveals how history, memory, and survival shape families across generations.
