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Ce premier roman est une belle réussite. L'autrice a le don de raconter des histoires et elle réussit à faire naître une véritable sympathie pour ses personnages malgré le fait qu'on leur consacre à peine une quinzaine de pages chacun, ce qui selon moi, est un véritable tour de force narratif.

Incredible book. Cannot recommend enough

Beautifully sad story of two half sisters born in Ghana during the slave trade and how the subsequent 6 generations moved through life. I was impressed with how the author was able to pull in that much story and emotion in roughly 300 pages. I do wish the later generations were discussed more in depth as the story started to feel rushed at the end. I had to look up a family tree online to follow along with who was who. Listened on audiobook and the narrator was perfection

as the book kept going, i kept rooting for the characters, for their happy endings. i wanted them to make it home safe and reunite with their loved ones. but every time, they are met with suffering. ripped away from family, from heirlooms this isn’t a book to feel happy while reading, i mean the synopsis enough should tell you that. still i searched for hope, for a light. some of the characters might’ve achieved peace, but none escaped being marred with injustice at the end, i was waiting for one full circle moment, something which i wont spoil here. it would be one moment to right the wrong of what happened in the first generation. a little nugget of good at the end of suffering, but it never came this isn’t a book of righting wrongs. this is a book of strength. of finding a reason to keep living. millions of people will never reunite with their history, will never get to go home. and despite that, people dance, people sing. people look towards the stars and swim in the ocean. living, truly loving life, is the biggest act of defiance towards a world who seeks nothing more than to destroy

A massive story, from intertribal wars in Ghana, to slave trading, to illegal slave trading, to slavery in the USA, to coal mining in the usa using slaves, to missionary work in Ghana, to USA civil war, emancipation, the great move north, life in Harlem, drug addiction, black jazz music. much love and life and pain and deaths along the way. An epic story.

I put this book on hold at the library in April, and I finally got to read it now 4 months later. It was worth the wait. Following two different lines of the same family was fascinating.