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Homegoing (Record no. 59469)

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control field 9780241975244
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780241975244
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gyasi, Yaa
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Homegoing
Medium [electronic resource]
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. [Harmondsworth]
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2016
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Downloadable eBook.
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General note Fiction.
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General note Adult.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Remote
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Summary, etc. Written with tremendous sweep and power, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history, each life indelibly drawn, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day. 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, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Summary, etc. [electronic resource] /
690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN)
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Slavery-United States-Fiction
690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN)
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Women, Black-Fiction
690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN)
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sisters-Fiction
690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN)
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Internarriage-England-Fiction
690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN)
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Historical fiction
856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
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