The R(ead)sling List: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

By Emma Soberano ’17 soberano@grinnell.edu Yaa Gyasi’s “Homegoing” is more than a collection of short stories shaped into a novel: it is a family tree, whose trunk is split at the base but which rises, strong, for generations. At the root of the story are Effia and Esi, Ghanaian half-sisters separated by the eighteenth century’s...