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Yaa Gyasi

Start date: January 1, 2017

Finish date: February 28, 2017

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Dec 13, 2020 M.P. Tonnesen rated it really liked it

A powerful collage of tragic stories; eye-opening and well-written, yet painful to read. It took me a while to get through this - the first third was particularly harrowing and hard to stomach. I’m happy that I read it at last and feel enlightened after my journey through Asante and Fante land of what is now Ghana, and the dark sides of past America.

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Jan 23, 2017 Ruby’s Edit rated it it was amazing

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What an astonishing novel!! I had the pleasure of meeting Gyasi and asked her a few questions on her novel which is set out in my book review on my blog (link:

Here is an excerpt of my review: https://mybookinggreatblog.com/2017/0...

Gyasi's story takes the reader seamlessly through a village in Africa in the 1800s to modern America. We follow the lives of the descendents of two sisters. Twins born on a night of the greatest fire of their village. Siblings who never meet. Effia is married off to ...more

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Feb 03, 2017 Kaity Hitt rated it it was amazing

Definitely think this is one of those books that everyone should read. Not only is it a different perspective on history (at least it was for me), it is written amazingly well. She does a beautiful job of keeping up with even the smallest details and just wrapped up The whole thing perfectly!

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