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Homegoing : a novel / Yaa Gyasi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.Edition: 1st edDescription: 305 p. : geneal. table ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781101947135
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3607.Y37 H66 2016
Other classification:
  • FIC049040 | FIC008000 | FIC019000
Online resources: 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"--Provided by publisher.
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library FIC/GYA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844500060130

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"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"--Provided by publisher.

910 Lexile.

Adult Follett School Solutions.

Reading Counts RC 6.3 26.0

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