July/August's Middletown Book for Discussion: Homegoing

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, August 2.  Our title is Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing.  Here is a brief summary:

"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial and live in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, and her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and--with outstanding economy and force--captures the troubled spirit of our own nation."  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook available, and Bookshop.org has links to purchase the title from independent booksellers.

Our group is always finding interesting titles to share, and we look forward to the new things you'll bring to the table.  In addition to discussing Hamnet, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their June 28 meeting:

• Midnight's Children and the Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
• A Single Thread, Tracy Chevalier
• Winds of War, Herman Wouk
  
• The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act, Isaac Butler
• Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the 20th Century, Dana Stevens
• The Woman Next Door, Yewande Omotoso
• Deacon King Kong, James McBride
• Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi

We will meet at 12 pm on the 2nd both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

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Please come along to our discussion to share what you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing!

If you're looking for something interesting to read, check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm

"Fishermen by Cape Coast Castle" by Erik Cleves Kristensen is licensed under CC BY 2.0.