Gyasi’s Homegoing should be on everyone’s bookshelf, and I think now, more than ever, this book is a must-read. Whilst it is fundamentally vital that we educate ourselves with the facts surrounding historic events, and the enormous adversities faced by Black communities throughout history, I’ve often found that fiction can be the most powerful tool for bringing about change by seeing life through the eyes of characters who have experienced such injustice, it feels far more moving than mere facts and statistics on a page. I read this book for the first time in 2017, and it really stuck with me in light of recent events, I picked it up again, and was immediately sucked back into the poignant narrative that Gyasi has so expertly crafted. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is a massive exception. When it comes to books, I am definitely someone who has a rapidly growing to-be-read list, almost to the extent where I can’t keep up, so it is incredibly rare that I delve back into novels that I’ve already read.
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