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This is Why I Love Reading

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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This is an astounding book. Profound. Heartbreakingly beautiful. Gyasi employs a narrative structure I haven’t seen before, and it is just one of a million choices she makes that is exactly right. The entire book is exactly right. Each plot point, each character, each word. Each chapter is its own stunning creation, and they all fit together with precision and symmetry into an intricate and complex quilt worthy of being hung on the wall and admired or wrapped around your shoulders and treasured. Why does […]

Home is something carried with us, in our blood, for better or worse

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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“What I know now, my son: Evil begets evil. It grows. It transmutes, so that sometimes you cannot see that the evil in the world began as the evil in your own home. I’m sorry you have suffered. I’m sorry for the way your suffering casts a shadow over your life, over the woman you have yet to marry, the children you have yet to have.” I have friends who talk about memory like it is a living thing, ancestors like they have never died, […]

A Powerful Story of Family

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read “Homegoing” as part of my library’s book club. I didn’t finish it in time for the book club meeting, but I had heard good things about it so I wanted to make sure I fit this into my reading schedule. I ended up reading it on a road trip, which helped me enjoy this book more than if I read this in bits and pieces. “Homegoing” is the story of two half-sisters, neither […]

Amazing, absolutely breath taking. One of My Top 5 Reads This Year.

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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Bingo Square Round 2: Underrepresented I expected that this novel would be good given faintingviolet’s review, but it completely surpassed those expectations.  I was completely blown away by this novel, and how elegantly Gyasi plotted this family epic, showing how the slave trade shaped two different countries. I have read books and novels that addressed the experiences of men and women stolen from their homes who survived the Middle Passage and were forced into the United States slavery system. I’ve read about sharecropping, prison labor, the […]

Our Histories Build Us (CBR10Bingo)

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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Confession: I took this book out of the library no less than twice before I managed to read it. I was intimidated by the book, both by its content and its acclaim. It has a near perfect five star rating on Cannonball Read and high rating on Goodreads where literary fiction doesn’t normally do so well. I shouldn’t have been hesitant – the book earns its high rating by being one of the most accessible works of literary and historical fiction I have possibly ever […]



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