Come join the discussion of National Book Critics Circle Award Winner Yaa Gyazi's Homegoing.
\nFrom the publis her\, "Two half sisters\, Effia and Esi\, unknown to each other\, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be m arried off to an English colonial\, and will live in comfort in the sprawl ing\, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle\, raising half-caste children wh o will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Go ld 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 sh ipped off on a boat bound for America\, where she will be sold into slaver y. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in Am erica\, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the str eets of 20th century Harlem\, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece \, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and--with outstand ing economy and force--captures the troubled spirit of our own nation"--\nhttps://alexandria.libnet.info/event/10134978 URL;VALUE=URI:https://alexandria.libnet.info/event/10134978 ATTACH:https://static.libnet.info/images/events/alexandria/Homegoing.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR