Homegoing

The essay also gives a great nod to contemporary inheritance novels just to prove that this genre isn't dead, and we are still obsessed with it.

It lists Philip Meyers' The Son for Texas oil dynasties, Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing, tracking descendants from 18th century Ghana, Abraham Verghese's The Covenant of Water in South India, Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half, and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife.

A great list.

It's absolute proof that we are still deeply obsessed with what an ancestor's compromise looks like when it manifests in a modern body.

life yeah yeah exactly really

exactly well on the subject of addiction i don't know if you've read transcendent kingdom by jesse which i just think is one of the most heartbreaking yeah but poignant depictions of addiction i've ever read yeah it's phenomenal but we are going to talk about her other novel Homegoing, which is your third bookshelfy book.

First published in 2016, this is a remarkable debut novel that traces the descendants of two half-sisters born in 18th century Ghana.

One remains in West Africa while the other is sold into slavery and transported to America.

Well, Louise, it's time for us to talk about your fifth and final bookshelfy book.

And it's another about the bonds of sisterhood.

Of course, we had Homegoing, but right now it's The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.

This is a powerful novel.

It was a chilling read, equally chilling as if the book often shows up on banned books lists, not unlike in its narrative.

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.

Reader Melanie H. praises Homegoing, the critically acclaimed Ghanian historical fiction novel.

My book club read it and I was enthralled.

I can't stop thinking about it ever since.