Genre: Book
Grade: B++
Notable People: Yaa Gyasi
Title: Homegoing
Review: A birthday gift from my daughter, this read took me as far from my current serial noir expression, as could be. A pretty impressive first novel that traces one Ghana family starting in the 1770s for over 200 years. Each chapter successively tells the story of the next generational ancestor, moving fluidly from the Gold Coast, to London, Jim Crow Alabama, Harlem and back to Africa. It is an amazing depiction of the slave trade, white(British in this case) imperialism ,and the plantation south, in all its bloody glory. An extraordinary work and exceptionally well written….though I found it very, very slow to read and could not read more than 20 pages at a time. Maybe just too much of a Travis McGee habit…