CBR 15 Bingo: Africa – The book begins, ends, and half of it takes place in Africa. Yaa Gyasi begins Homegoing with a pair of sisters (Effia Otcher and Esi Asare) separated at birth at the height of the African slave trade. One sister, Effia, is raised and married off to a white Englishman on the Gold Coast. The other sister, Esi, stays in a tribal African village. The story covers seven generations. Each chapter is a new person advancing down the timeline and alternates between […]
A multi-generational exploration of Black experience from the early days of the slave trade through modern day.
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi