Author: yaagyasi

This New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Homegoing paints a moving portrait of a Ghanaian immigrant family grappling with grief and loss in Alabama. “A book of blazing brilliance… Thank God, we have this remarkable novel” (The Washington Post).

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. One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year and a PEN/Hemingway award winner,… award winner, 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…