This is an extraordinary book by a young African-American
novelist. The title is taken from an old
African-American belief that death allows an enslaved person’s spirit to travel
back to Africa. Gyasi follows the lives of two sisters—Effia and Esi—from the
West African nation of Ghani. Effia
marries an English officer and stays in Africa, while her sister is captured by
her own people and sold to the British as a slave and sent to America.. Each chapter is told by the descendants of the sisters and
represents a generation for each. This
bold format reads like separate stories.
Gyasi’s genius is in telling the saga so that the bloodlines intersect
to the present day.
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