Description
Yaa Gyasi's debut novel—one of the most formally ambitious and most emotionally devastating works of American fiction published in the twenty-first century—follows eight generations of two Ghanaian half-sisters' families across three centuries and two continents, tracing the full arc of the African-American experience from the slave trade through the crack epidemic in a novel of extraordinary scope and extraordinary compassion. Written with the historical authority and the literary intelligence of a debut novelist who arrived fully formed, this is essential reading for every lover of American literary fiction and every reader committed to understanding the deep history of race in America. A masterpiece.
