genre: adult historical fiction
Homegoing is a novel of Africa, of Her children who left and Her children who stayed. It is a novel of parallel timelines as we watch two sisters and their families navigate a world in which the legacy of Africa plays out on two continents. It is heartbreaking. It is beautiful. It is compassionate and unapologetic and gorgeously written. I finished it feeling both undone and whole, marveling at the way I moved through time and yet my concern for the characters who came and then slowly went never waned. I needed their stories. Slavery, freedom, tribal wars and Harlem, colorism, colonialism and Jim Crow, we are asked to imagine life in so many different scenarios and every time -we get beauty, compassion, pain and, occasionally, redemption. Exceptional piece of literature.
Content warning: sexual situations
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