Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing is a breathtaking historical novel that traces the legacy of slavery through the bloodline of two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, who are born in 18th-century Ghana but are fated to live entirely different lives. Effia is married off to a British slave trader, while Esi is sold into slavery and shipped to America. Their descendants’ journeys unfold across centuries, from the Gold Coast’s tribal wars to the plantations of the American South, the Harlem Renaissance, and modern-day America.