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Homegoing
2 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Yaa Gyasi Books in Order: Complete Reading Guide
Both Yaa Gyasi novels in order — Homegoing and Transcendent Kingdom. Where to start with one of the most celebrated young American novelists.
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Books Like Homegoing: Multigenerational African Diaspora and the Long Shadow of Slavery
Yaa Gyasi's debut follows two half-sisters in 18th-century Ghana — one who marries a British slave trader, one who is enslaved — and traces their descendants across eight generations to present-day America. These books share its structural ambition and its account of how history inhabits the body.
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