Homegoing : [a Gab bag for book discussion groups]
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Homegoing : [a Gab bag for book discussion groups]
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The work Homegoing : [a Gab bag for book discussion groups] represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Label
- Homegoing : [a Gab bag for book discussion groups]
- Title remainder
- [a Gab bag for book discussion groups]
- Statement of responsibility
- Yaa Gyasi
- Title variation
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- Home going
- Gab bags
- Subject
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- trueUnited States -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- United States -- Fiction
- Slavery -- Fiction
- trueSlavery
- Sisters -- Fiction
- trueSeparated friends, relatives, etc
- trueAfrica -- History -- 18th century
- trueAfrican Americans
- African Americans -- History -- Fiction
- trueAfrican people
- trueAmerican people
- trueAncestors
- Book clubs (Discussion groups)
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily history
- trueGhana -- History
- Ghana -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction
- Group reading
- trueHalf-sisters
- Historical fiction
- Intermarriage -- England -- Fiction
- trueNorth American people
- trueRacism
- trueRace relations
- Women, Black -- Fiction
- Women -- Ghana -- Fiction
- trueWest African people
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and--with outstanding economy and force--captures the troubled spirit of our own nation"--
- Award
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- National Book Critics Circle Award: John Leonard Prize, 2016.
- ALA Notable Book, 2017.
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, 2017.
- Indies' Choice Book Awards, Adult Debut, 2017.
- Library Journal Best Books, 2016
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2016.
- Loan Stars Favourites, 2016.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2016
- School Library Journal Best Books: Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2016
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- VAK
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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