Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi wrote a fascinating story named Homegoing. Although some parts were difficult to read I overall enjoyed this story. This historical fiction takes place in Ghana and in the United States. A woman named Maame has two daughters. Effia and Esa are unaware of each other but both have a black stone  necklace from their mother. Effia and Esa are both beautiful and end up in the same castle. One of the sisters lives upstairs with the English slave trader. The other sister lives in the dungeon below the castle as a slave and is shipped across the sea to the United States. The many descendants of Effia and Esa have some good times and some hard times. Brutality is a  fact of life on both continents. I learned quite a bit about the history of slavery and the introduction of cacao plants as a crop.