Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi

A brutal, beautiful, epic. Reminiscent of one hundred years of solitude in it’s generation spanning. I learned so much about the internal complexities of being African and being African American. There was a strong theme, or more so interrogation, of power and choice, or the lack thereof in each character’s story. Of things happening to them, of the roles that women have. And the reckoning of the external and internal worlds and power structures.

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