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008 241206s2017 nyu e 000 1 eng d
020 _a9781101971062
_qpaperback
035 _a(OCoLC)955007907
040 _aYDXCP
_beng
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100 1 _aGyasi, Yaa,
_eauthor.
_4aut.
245 1 0 _aHomegoing :
_ba novel /
_cYaa Gyasi.
250 _aFirst Vintage Books edition.
300 _a305 pages ;
_c21 cm.
500 _aSubtitle from cover.
500 _a"Reading Group Guide available at www.ReadingGroupCenter.com" --Back cover.
520 _a"Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi's extraordinary novel illuminates slavery's troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed--and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation."--
650 0 _aWomen
_zGhana
_vFiction.
650 0 _aSlavery
_vFiction.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xHistory
_vFiction.
_955662
651 0 _aGhana
_xHistory
_y18th century
_vFiction.
_955663
655 7 _aDomestic fiction.
_2lcgft.
655 7 _aHistorical fiction.
_2lcgft.
907 _a.b378557105
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