slave trade – Cannonball Read 17

A multi-generational exploration of Black experience from the early days of the slave trade through modern day.

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

September 1, 2023 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

CBR 15 Bingo: Africa – The book begins, ends, and half of it takes place in Africa. Yaa Gyasi begins Homegoing with a pair of sisters (Effia Otcher and Esi Asare) separated at birth at the height of the African slave trade. One sister, Effia, is raised and married off to a white Englishman on the Gold Coast. The other sister, Esi, stays in a tribal African village. The story covers seven generations. Each chapter is a new person advancing down the timeline and alternates between […]

A sweeping epic of two families that I could not put down

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

July 15, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

BINGO – Home Summary: Homegoing follows multiple generations of families that start in 17th century Ghana and track all the way through modern day. Homegoing follows a linear plot structure but each chapter switches from family to family and from one generation to the next. This novel is sweeping in its scope. The culmination of the two stories lines comes together in an expected way but one that is still works. Most vignettes of the families are about finding one’s home or space, trying to […]

Home is something carried with us, in our blood, for better or worse

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

January 12, 2020 by zinka 5 Comments

“What I know now, my son: Evil begets evil. It grows. It transmutes, so that sometimes you cannot see that the evil in the world began as the evil in your own home. I’m sorry you have suffered. I’m sorry for the way your suffering casts a shadow over your life, over the woman you have yet to marry, the children you have yet to have.” I have friends who talk about memory like it is a living thing, ancestors like they have never died, […]

A hunter on suicide mission falls in love with an angel of death

December 31, 2016 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

Steel’s Edge is the final entry in the Edge series. Once again, two unlikely people are thrust together by violence and fate. Charlotte de Ney is a healer who devoted her life to others in the Weird. Her adoptive mother, Lady Augustine, is a powerful noble and mentor, which makes Charlotte an honorary noble and able to marry well. Sadly, Charlotte is unlucky in love and learns her husband is a complete asshole who married her only to produce an heir to receive his inheritance. Once he learns […]

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