Homegoing

Wow. This was quite a feat of storytelling, and I didn't want to put it down. This made me wonder about my own history — what were my great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents and great-great-great grandparents like? — but also I knew that I could probably find out (even though some of my various ancestors were Irish Catholics and Russian Jews in a time where neither of those was looked upon particularly favorably). I think that's what stunned me most about the Esi timeline; that almost every generation was broken away from the previous generation, so even if one wanted to trace his or her timeline, there was a limit to how far back you could go, and it wasn't that far.

I really thought that I would be disappointed that we couldn't go back and revisit some of these stories at another point in time, through another's eyes if not the character's own, but really each of them started and stopped when they needed to. And Marcus' story concluded the book, if not perfectly, then at least as perfect as was possible for such a broken history. Phenomenal.