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Homegoing : a novel / Yaa Gyasi.

Gyasi, Yaa, (author.). Hoffman, Dominic, (narrator.). Playaway Digital Audio. (Added Author). Findaway World, LLC. (Added Author). Penguin Random House. (Added Author). Random House Audio Publishing. (Added Author). Random House (Firm) (Added Author).

Summary:

Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia's descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781509411283
  • Physical Description: 1 audio media player (approximately 13 hrs.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"HD."
"LIGHT."
Previously released by Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.
Release date supplied by publisher.
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Dominic Hoffman.
Subject: Women > Ghana > Fiction.
Ghana > History > 18th century > Fiction.
Slavery > Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Topic Heading: Audiobooks, unabridged.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Parkland Community Library PA F GYA (Text) 34422006211300 Playaway Available -
Hughes Library PA F GYA (Text) 32378004567006 Playaway Available -
Western Pocono Community Library PLAY F Gya (Text) 31119000258443 Media Center Available -

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