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001			037941
005			20231009192646.0
008			170302s20162016nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781101947135
050	0	0	_aPS3607.Y37 _bH66 2016
082	1		_aFIC GYA _2
100	1		_aGyasi, Yaa
245	1	0	_aHomegoing _c/ Yaa Gyasi
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2016
300			_a305 p. _c; 25 cm
520			_aTwo half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a novel that moves through histories and geographies and - with outstanding economy and forcé - captures the troubled spirit of our own nation.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aSisters _x-Fiction
650		4	_aSlavery _v--Fiction
650		4	_aTribal wars _v--Fiction
651		4	_aGhana _v--Fiction
942			_cMO
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