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DESCRIPTION:Yaa Gyasi reads from her new novel Homegoing \n\nHomegoing traces three 
 hundred years in Ghana and in the U.S. Two 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.\n\nOne thread of 
 Homegoing 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.\n\n Homegoing 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. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/10/18787435.php
SUMMARY:Yaa Gyasi Reads From Her New Novel Homegoing
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave., Berkeley CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/10/18787435.php
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