# Homegoing

**Author(s):** Yaa Gyasi
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**Genres:** literary-fiction, historical-fiction, history
**Pages:** 309
**Publisher:** Alfred A. Knopf
**Published:** Fri Jan 01 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781101947135
**ISBN-10:** 1101947136
**ASIN:** B015VACH4U
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Family Life > Multigenerational
**Amazon binding:** $12.99
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/homegoing

## Description

Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016. Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister Esi is held captive in the dungeons below. Subsequent chapters follow their children and following generations.

The novel was selected in 2016 for the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" award, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for best first book, and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2017. It received the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for 2017, an American Book Award, and the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature.

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