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Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi (born 1989) is a Ghanaian-American novelist whose debut novel, Homegoing, brought her, at the age of 26, National Book Foundation's 5 under 35 honors for 2016.

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Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi - Publisher : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publisher presentation: 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,...
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