If the girl could not shake his hand, then, surely, she could never touch her own.”
The Fante had protection from trading them. “The Asante had power from capturing slaves. “James had spent his whole life listening to his parents argue about who was better, Asante or Fante, but the matter could never come down to slaves,” Gyasi writes. Both of them are West Africans, members of the Akan people, although she is Asante, from the interior of what we now call Ghana, and he is Fante, from the coast. “Respectfully, I will not shake the hand of a slaver,” she says, withholding the customary gesture of condolence. “Very thought provoking and a good insight into another culture and how people have been treated.”ĭownload and read the extract.In Yaa Gyasi’s début novel, “Homegoing” (Knopf), a boy greeting the line of mourners at his grandfather’s funeral encounters a beautiful girl. Each story has so much to offer, and at times I wished we could stay with characters longer, but was soon caught up in the next chapter. Our library reading panel loved Homegoing so much it was selected to be featured in the Radio 2 Book Club – here are some of their comments: Yaa Gyasi has written a miraculous novel – the intimate, gripping story of a brilliantly vivid cast of characters and through their lives the very story of America itself. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi from the missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem, spanning three continents and seven generations.
The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow. One sold into slavery one a slave trader’s wife. Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies.
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