Homegoing

In 18th-century Ghana, two half-sisters are born in separate villages, unaware of each other's existence. One is married off to a British colonizer and lives in luxury within the Cape Coast Castle. The other is seized during a raid, imprisoned in that same fortress, and sold into slavery.

Homegoing traces the diverging fates of these sisters and their descendants across eight generations—spanning from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton fields of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance. With powerful clarity, Yaa Gyasi’s sweeping novel explores the enduring scars of slavery on both sides of the Atlantic, revealing how the trauma of captivity echoes across time and shapes a nation's soul.

An International Bestseller. Winner of The Pen / Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction.