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Homegoing

Gyasi, Yaa (author.).

Summary: "Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and--with outstanding economy and force--captures the troubled spirit of our own nation"--

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  • ISBN: 9781101947135 (hardback) :
  • ISBN: 9781101971062 (pbk. : Vintage, 2017) :
  • ISBN: 1101971061 (pbk. : Vintage, 2017) :
  • ISBN: 9781518194528
  • ISBN: 1518194524
  • Physical Description: print
    305 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

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Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader UG 6.0 18 18 182425

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Subject:
Women -- Ghana -- Fiction
Ghana -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction
Slavery -- Fiction
African Americans -- History -- Fiction
Genre:
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 38 of 61 copies available at Westchester Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 2 copies available at Town of Pelham Public Library.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 61 total copies.

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Town of Pelham Public Library GYASI (Text) 31023151124554 Fiction Checked out 01/27/2026
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