Homegoing

Beautiful story of growth and understanding who you are at the moment.

This book was exquisitely uncomfortable to read. And it should be. It follows seven genrations of descendants from two half sisters in what is now Ghana and illustrates how slavery and racism left their mark. It was beautifully written. It would have been easy for each chapter to have the same voice but it didn't. They were each unique, telling each character's separate but connected story. The ending was as satisfying as one could hope for. Ever...read more

“...when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture." Homegoing moves through the generations of a family torn apart. Two sisters separated at birth are pushed toward very different lives, two different branches of the sa...read more

Wow. A chronicle of slavery, on two continents, but told through the stories of a single family. Separated by time and slavery and politics. And yet as a white person adopted as an infant the core of this resonates with me as a couple of questions. Do we carry parts of our ancestors with us? Are we doomed to repeat choices, good and bad from even completely unknown family history?

The book seemed to loose the author's energy as it neared the end.