Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing is a sweeping exploration of how history, choice, and circumstance echo across generations. Through the lives of Effia and Esi and the many descendants they will never meet, we witness the complexities of love, loss, ambition, and identity unfold from 18th-century Ghana to modern-day America.

This is a story of human resilience. Whether or not your ancestors experienced slavery as slaves, slavers or unwitting witness, Homegoing invites you to reflect on the legacy we each inherit, and the future we shape with every step forward. With richly drawn characters and a multi-generational sweep, the novel reveals how personal and collective histories through ancestry, migration, trauma, and hope are deeply intertwined.

This is not just Black history. This is human history. And it is a story we all need to read.