✍️ Yaa Gyasi

3 titles · Historical, Fiction, Literary, Literary Fiction, Contemporary

⭐ 4.52016

Homegoing

🌶️ · 305p

Two half-sisters — one married to a British slaver, one in the dungeons below. The novel follows their descendants across 300 years and two continents. Every chapter is a gut punch.

Found Family

⭐ 4.42016

Homegoing

🌶️ · 300p

Two half-sisters in 18th century Ghana. One marries an Englishman; one is enslaved. Each chapter follows a descendant across generations into modern-day America.

Family SagaSlaveryInterconnected StoriesSpanning Centuries

⭐ 4.22020

Transcendent Kingdom

🌶️ · 272p

Neuroscientist Gifty studies reward-seeking behavior in mice while reflecting on her family's immigration from Ghana and her brother's opioid addiction. Science meets spirituality.

Family SagaImmigrationScience And FaithAddiction