{"product_id":"homegoing-yaa-gyasi","title":"Homegoing;  Yaa Gyasi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHomegoing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwo half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHomegoing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e follows Effia's descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHomegoing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeneration after generation, Yaa Gyasi's magisterial first novel sets the fate of the individual against the obliterating movements of time, delivering unforgettable characters whose lives were shaped by historical forces beyond their control. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHomegoing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a tremendous reading experience, not to be missed, by an astonishingly gifted young writer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJune 7, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYAA GYASI was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she held a Dean's Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47798567305538,"sku":"","price":9.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/homegoing.jpg?v=1707851270","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/homegoing-yaa-gyasi","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}