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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is a novel in stories about the Atlantic slave trade and its aftermath. The novel begins with the stories of two African halfsisters of the Fante and Asante tribes: Effia and Esi. Effia is born in the late eighteenth century in Fanteland on Africa’s Gold Coast on the night of a devastating fire near her father’s compound. Her adoptive mother Baaba immediately resents her because Effia is the daughter of her father Cobbe’s house girl.