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Recommendations
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing follows the families of two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, both born in Africa in the late 1700s. Although born around the same time, the two sisters lead very different lives. The older sister, Effia, marries a white man, and her family resides in Africa selling people into slavery during the height of the British slave trade. Esi, the younger sister, is one of those people sold into slavery, and her descendants end up residing across the ocean in the United States. Alternating between the two families, each chapter tells the story of a character from the next generation during a different part of Ghanaian (Effia) and American (Esi) history. While Effia’s family line is affected by the slave trade, the fall of the Asante tribe, and the takeover of their country by the British, Esi’s family is impacted by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, the harsh prison sentences of the late 1800s, and the Great Migration.
The great scope of this novel is a wonderful journey through a different, important side of history. As Yaw, Effia’s third great-grandson, advises, “So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect picture.”
At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic
At the End of the World tells the story of a series of religiously-inspired murders that took place in a remote part of Canada in 1941, intertwined with the narrative of how the author came to write the book. Despite the subtitle, it will not appeal to true-crime readers; Millman switches, from paragraph to paragraph, between the 1941 crime, his 2001 research trip to Canada, and assorted observations from the twelve years of writing and research that followed.
Despite the wandering structure, Millman packs his pages with details of the Inuit culture and the subarctic landscape, bringing both to life through close observation and sometimes-wry anecdotes. These same anecdotes often provide fodder for Millman’s favorite theme: technology’s destructive (and sometimes deadly) impact on both Inuit and Americans. While his attempts to draw parallels between the intrusion of technology and the religious fervor that inspired the murders often come off as Luddite complaining, At the End of the World remains a fascinating look at a people and a landscape undergoing rapid change.
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