Homegoing Condition:Good barely a stone's throw from

barely a stone's throw from Spain's southernmost tip

and a deep sympathy with its characters

face scandalous rumors

from Plato and Aristotle through the evolutionism of his contemporaries

Trapped together under the fluorescent lights

Homegoing Condition:Good barely a stone's throw fromA novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different