Homegoing   by Yaa Gyasi Published by Alfred A. Knopf on June 7, 2016 Genre : Historical Fiction  Pages: 305 Source: purchased Yaa Gyasi debut novel  Homegoing  is  a  testament of Black strength,  voices, and  memory.  It's one of the most powerful novels I have ever read and since my book club picked the book as January read, I have not gone a day without thinking and marvelling about it. The novel opens in the forests of 18th - century Ghana; through a fire accident , half sister's Effia and Esi were separated at  birth and they  grow up in different tribes  not knowing one another . Effia was married off to a British officer and lives with him in comfort at the Cape coast castle          ( center of  British trade on the Gold Coast) , but unknowingly to Effia, her half sister Esi was in the castle's dungeon. Esi was captured in the Fante village she grew up i...