She's only 26, yet she writes with authority about history and pulls her readers deep into her characters' lives through the force of her empathetic imagination.
Gyasi's lyric and versatile language makes all the difference. In the end, the two separate family sagas merge into one, back in the place where it all began.Īs plots go, this is one is pretty formulaic, but one of the achievements of Yaa Gyasi's debut novel, Homegoing, is that, although it's patterned on the "same-old, same-old" narrative blueprint that's framed many a blockbuster, the feel of her novel is mostly sophisticated, rather than pre-fab. Some of their descendants are in Africa, some are in America some are free, some are enslaved. How?Īfter two half sisters are separated, we follow their family lines over the course of two centuries through a series of short stories. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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