A story of diverging fates in colonial-era Ghana

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A celebration of the faceless subaltern: Yaa Gyassi’s Homegoing is the ultimate retaliation against the dehumanizing colonial machine. The novel transcends time and space by spanning many decades, villages, and cities. The countless characters — the descendants of Ghanaian sisters Effia and Esi — all have rich and complex backstories and lives. While the novel is at times overwhelming, it is the natural unfolding of glaringly different fates: While one woman was abducted and sold as a slave after enemies raided her village, her sister weds an affluent Englishman.