”What emerges is a deep, heartfelt portrait of a family struggling with its place in history, and a young woman hoping to be the fulfillment of that struggle. This is, in the end, a novel about the burden of being the first of your kind — a burden you do not always survive.” The New York Times Book Review. Part of The Big Read, a National Endowment for the Arts program where communities across the country read books on a similar theme.
Discussion Leader: Dory Lynch
Discussion Leader: Dory Lynch
"The unhealed ruptures of slavery, persistent as memory and rubbed raw in such an instant, course through "Homegoing," the hypnotic debut novel by Yaa Gyasi, a stirringly gifted young writer, that contemplates the consequences of human trafficking on both sides of the Atlantic." The New York Times
Discussion Leader: Dory Lynch
"The unhealed ruptures of slavery, persistent as memory and rubbed raw in such an instant, course through "Homegoing," the hypnotic debut novel by Yaa Gyasi, a stirringly gifted young writer, that contemplates the consequences of human trafficking on both sides of the Atlantic." The New York Times
Discussion Leader: Dory Lynch
"The unhealed ruptures of slavery, persistent as memory and rubbed raw in such an instant, course through "Homegoing," the hypnotic debut novel by Yaa Gyasi, a stirringly gifted young writer, that contemplates the consequences of human trafficking on both sides of the Atlantic." The New York Times