Black people have been writing about inequality since before America was ‘a thing,’ & books offer direct paths to understanding the Black experience in this country. Reading Black voices isn’t in itself allyship or anti-racism, but it’s an important part.
In this book, two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born in different villages in Ghana. Effia marries a rich Englishman and lives a cushy life in Cape Coast Castle. Esi is sold, with thousands of others, into the slave trade bound for America.
Gyasi’s novel follows both sisters and their parallel lives, generation after generation, showing a family shaped by two sides of history. “What [Gyasi] did here—illustrating the effect of systematic racism and colonialism on every generation of a Black family across four hundred years—was so ambitious and masterfully executed,” Card explains.
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