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"Homegoing has so many characters and places, after reading the book I decided to read the Summary to make sure my understanding of what I read was accurate and to connect the dots, so to speak, in connecting family members. I found this Summary to very helpful."
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Summary of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi | Includes Analysis Instaread Summaries Books Reviews :
Summary of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi | Includes Analysis Instaread Summaries Books Reviews
- Homegoing has so many characters and places, after reading the book I decided to read the Summary to make sure my understanding of what I read was accurate and to connect the dots, so to speak, in connecting family members. I found this Summary to very helpful.
- Its not very long and its really in my opinion its a great addition to your library and african history.Several Short stories and account of slave trading.
- Book group discussion. Had read book awhile back and needed refresher on characters
In book. I am sorry it did not include family tree found in hard cover edition - This is a multi-generational novel, tracing one family across two branches and multiple continents. Along the way the characters need to deal with the impact of the iniquity of privileged of birth. Effia is resented by her adoptive mother Baaba, not for any act of her own, but because her mother was a house girl, Cobbe. More pronounced, of course, is the path the entire family takes from slavery through to the civil rights movement, and all the way to the modern age, ultimately to the descendants of both lines returning home.
This summary includes, as is common in Instaread summaries of fiction, an analysis of the characters, their relationships, and the main themes of the novel, along with a summary of the plot. While it cannot substitute for the original, it is a good supplemental text for book clubs or readers who would like further insight.
I received a copy in exchange for an honest review. - Very informative and an eye opener. Very well written and hard to put down. Great read.
- These Cliff Notes helped with comprehension and points of view as I read the hard copy of this book. A must read to get the fullness from this novel.
- Had to re-read the first several chapters before I could really get into the book.
- The recap at the beginning of this book is somewhat dry as it goes through so many names and their different stories, without fully developing or establishing a main character. Perhaps, this is a characteristic of a summary book, but it recovers by its sections of analyses. The common theme among the stories of the different generations of characters is in their African and African American struggles with subjugation. Even the final generation of the story, represented by Marcus and Marjorie who are PhD students at Stanford, still experience prejudice as black members of American society. It is an especially appropriate topic given the current situation of oppression and the movement of "Black Lives Matter" and all of the arguments and debates surrounding them. One may notice that there is a lack of a caucasian voice in the story to represent a bit of an opposition, but it looks to be the author's intention. Maybe, the side of the oppressed does not need any debate of the matter. I would read the book for character development and how the massive number of characters fit in the story.
