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Multigenerational Saga
2 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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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.
Books Like Pachinko: Multigenerational Sagas, Immigration, and the Weight of History
Min Jin Lee's four-generation saga of a Korean family in Japan — from a teenage girl's shame to her grandson's life in Tokyo — is the great immigration novel of the twenty-first century. These books share its multigenerational sweep, its focus on survival, and its account of what it costs to live as an outsider.
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