Yaa Gyasi

Separated sisters “are like a woman and her reflection, doomed to stay on opposite sides of a pond”

Spanning 300 years, 2 continents, 7 generations, and 14 different perspectives, Homegoing is an astonishing debut novel by a 26-year-old Ghanaian-American. In 1700s Ghana, two half-sisters are born. Effia the Beautiful is a well-born Fante whose mother, Maame, had vanished...

31 October 2021
Susan

Books Diaspora Fiction

Faith, science and addiction in an immigrant family

Having reading reviews of how harrowing Gyasi’s Homegoing was, I have still not summoned the courage to read it yet, but her second novel has turned out very readable. Our protagonist is Gifty, a second generation Ghanaian immigrant in the...