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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE * WINNER OF THE PEN / HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION * Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.

One of Oprah's Best Books of the Year, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi's extraordinary novel illuminates slavery's troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed--and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.

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Yaa Gyasi grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, after being born in Ghana. She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in English and an MFA from Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded a Dean's Graduate Research Scholarship. She currently resides in New York City.

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ISBN 13 9781101971062
ISBN 10 1101971061
Title Homegoing
Author Yaa Gyasi
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 2017-05-02
Number of pages 320
Prizes Winner of PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel 2017, Short-listed for British Book Award - Book of the Year (Overall) 2018, Short-listed for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction 2017, Long-listed for Dylan Thomas Prize 2017
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