This novel from Yaa Gyasi traces the heritage of a family, beginning when two sisters are separated from their home in West Africa in the eighteenth century and reaching all the way to present time. Each chapter focuses on a different member of the family tree as the characters navigate their time and circumstance and very human ways. This book came on my radar when it was the Washtenaw Reads selection, but I did not read it until Mr. Packard put a copy in my hands. I really liked the changing narrative in each chapter. Gyasi's storytelling is both a collection of short stories and a single larger tapestry: I enjoyed hearing her slip into the perspectives of people at different moments of the African diaspora and use their snapshots to create a narrative.
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