Homegoing /
Gyasi, Yaa,
Homegoing / Yaa Gyasi. - First edition. - 305 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery."--
9781101947135 1101947136
2015039411
Women--Ghana--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
African Americans--History--Fiction.
Ghana--History--18th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction
PS3607.Y37 / H66 2016
813/.6
Homegoing / Yaa Gyasi. - First edition. - 305 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery."--
9781101947135 1101947136
2015039411
Women--Ghana--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
African Americans--History--Fiction.
Ghana--History--18th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction
PS3607.Y37 / H66 2016
813/.6