![]() ![]() She and her father want her to marry the village’s chief-to-be Abeeku, but Effia’s Baaba has a different idea for Effia’s future, a plan which requires secrecy and strategy, and will mean that Effia’s fate and centuries of her posterity’s lives will forever be altered.Īfter Effia’s chapter, we meet Esi, Effia’s half-sister. ![]() Told from a third person point of view, Homegoing begins with Effia, a young girl just coming into her womanhood. After reading Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi earlier this year, I was extremely interested in reading her previous debut novel, Homegoing, which tells the fictional stories of two half-sisters born in separate villages in eighteenth-century Ghana and their respective descendants.Īnd as though I weren’t already excited enough to read it, when I opened up to the first few pages and saw a family tree chart, I became even more hyped– who doesn’t love a book with a chart? ![]()
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