" Homegoing  is an inspiration." —Ta-Nehisi Coates  An unforgettable New York Times bestseller of exceptional scope and sweeping vision that traces the descendants of two sisters across three hundred years in Ghana and America. A riveting kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing is a novel about race, history, ancestry, love and time, charting the course of two sisters torn apart in 18th century Africa through to the present day.      Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonist, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising "half-caste" children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, before being shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery.      Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and—with outstanding economy and force—captures the intricacies of the troubled yet hopeful human spirit. A  New York Times Bestseller International Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize for Outstanding First Book Winner of the  PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Runner-up of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction Longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize Nominated for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Book A Time Top Novel An Oprah Favorite Book A Globe and Mail Best Book A  Guardian  Best Book A National Post Best Book A CBC Best Book An Entertainment Weekly Best Book A Buzzfeed Best Book A BBC Best Book An Esquire Best Book An Atlantic Best Book A  Kirkus Reviews  Best Book An NPR Best Book A Harper's Bazaar Best Book An Elle Best Book A Paste Magazine Best Book A Jezebel Best Book An A.V. Club Favorite Book A British GQ Best Book A Popsugar Best Book A Financial Times Best Book "It's impossible not to admire the ambition and scope of Homegoing , and thanks to Ms. Gyasi's instinctive storytelling gifts, the book leaves the reader with a visceral understanding of both the savage realities of slavery and the emotional damage that is handed down, over the centuries, from mothers to daughters, fathers to sons. At its best, the novel makes us experience the horrors of slavery on an intimate, personal level; by its conclusion, the characters' tales of loss and resilience have acquired an inexorable and cumulative emotional weight." ―Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review "Gyasi's characters are so fully realized, so elegantly carved—very often I found myself longing to hear more. . . . I think I needed to read a book like this to remember what is possible. I think I needed to remember what happens when you pair a gifted literary mind to an epic task. Homegoing is an inspiration." —Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Book Award-winning author of  Between the World and Me "A blazing success. . . . The sum of Homegoing 's parts is remarkable, a panoramic portrait of the slave trade and its reverberations, told through the travails of one family that carries the scars of that legacy. . . . Gyasi's characters may be fictional, but their stories are representative of a range of experience that is all too real and difficult to uncover. Terrible things happen to them; they're constantly cleaved apart, and in the process, cut off from their own stories. In her ambitious and sweeping novel, Gyasi has made these lost stories a little more visible."  — Los Angeles Times " Homegoing is assured and propulsive, feeling as inevitable as time itself in its pacing, each chapter delving deep into the life of one man or woman, reeling through lives burned by histories both global and domestic. . . . Homegoing is in a league of its own, contemporary and complex and astoundingly assured. . . . With Homegoing , Gyasi arrives, already a major and inspiring literary talent." — Toronto Star "Yaa Gyasi's much-anticipated novel lives up to the hype. . . . [ Homegoing is a] dazzling and much-anticipated debut. . . . At 27, Gyasi is already a consummate craftsperson, ferrying us to and fro across the Atlantic with ease. . . . Homegoing  is a footbridge across the Atlantic—proof that blood is thicker than wide water, confirmation that, yes indeed, we can go home again." ― Maclean’s "Ambitious, but Gyasi pulls it off. . . . Such a powerful debut." —The Globe and