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Homegoing A novel

Yaa Gyasi

Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize The unforgettable

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The Ezra Klein Show

Brous praised Homegoing as one of the best novels she has read, an epic story of generational trauma and hope from Ghanaian ancestors.

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And the third I would say is a novel written by Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, which I really think is one of the best novels I've ever read. It is this epic story of generations of the descendants of two sist...

— Episode: The Sermons I Needed to Hear Right Now

Episode: The Sermons I Needed to Hear Right Now

Brous praised Homegoing as one of the best novels she has read, an epic story of generational trauma and hope from Ghanaian ancestors.

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And the third I would say is a novel written by Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, which I really think is one of the best novels I've ever read. It is this epic story of generations of the descendants of two sisters from Ghana, the impact of violence and enslavement and multigenerational trauma. And it's really also a story of hope and survival.

Morning Wire

The hosts recounted a mother being asked to stop reading from this novel during a school board meeting because of its explicit sexual passages, comparing it to "50 Shades of Grey".

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She was shut down by the board when she read passages from a book called Homegoing that was available to high schoolers in the district.

— Episode: The Battle Over Sexually Explicit Books...

Episode: The Battle Over Sexually Explicit Books | 4.7.23

The hosts recounted a mother being asked to stop reading from this novel during a school board meeting because of its explicit sexual passages, comparing it to "50 Shades of Grey".

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She was shut down by the board when she read passages from a book called Homegoing that was available to high schoolers in the district.

Strict Scrutiny

This novel was highly recommended and described as perhaps the best book read in the last five years, noted for its polyphonic fiction format.

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That is just I think like maybe the best book I've read in the last five years. If you are into kind of the format of polyphonic fiction.

— Episode: All I Want For Christmas Is Democracy

Episode: All I Want For Christmas Is Democracy

This novel was highly recommended and described as perhaps the best book read in the last five years, noted for its polyphonic fiction format.

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That is just I think like maybe the best book I've read in the last five years. If you are into kind of the format of polyphonic fiction.

I think I read it maybe two or three years ago but really, really loved it and in a similar vein this you know for opening the kind of category to things that really left an impression but not just this year.

I think Homegoing and Pachinko were probably top couple books in the last five years at least and the TV adaptation of Pachinko is also so far holding up amazingly well.

The Bulwark Podcast

It was recommended as a good book to read to distract from the stressful events of the weekend.

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I really liked Homegoing recently I read by, I'm going to butcher her name probably, Yaa Gyasi I believe is how you pronounce her name. So you can read that one this weekend.

— Episode: Amanda Carpenter: A Life or Death Bet

Episode: Amanda Carpenter: A Life or Death Bet

It was recommended as a good book to read to distract from the stressful events of the weekend.

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I really liked Homegoing recently I read by, I'm going to butcher her name probably, Yaa Gyasi I believe is how you pronounce her name. So you can read that one this weekend.

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