Homegoing is an inspiration. -Ta-Nehisi Coates

Spectacular. -Zadie Smith

Powerful. . . . Compelling. . . . Illuminating. -The Boston Globe

A blazing success. -Los Angeles Times

I could not put this book down. -Roxane Gay

Devastating. . . . Luminous. -Entertainment Weekly

A beautiful story. -Trevor Noah, The Daily Show

Spellbinding. -Minneapolis Star Tribune

Dazzling. . . . Devastating. . . . Truly captivating. -The Washington Post

Brims with compassion. . . . Yaa Gyasi has given rare and heroic voice to the missing and suppressed. -NPR

Tremendous . . . Spectacular. . . . Essential reading. -San Francisco Chronicle

Magical. . . . Hypnotic. . . . Yaa Gyasi [is] a stirringly gifted writer. -The New York Times Book Review

Powerful. . . . Gyasi has delivered something unbelievably tough to pull off: a centuries-spanning epic of interlinked short stories. . . . She has a poet's ability to pain a scene with a handful of phrases. -The Christian Science Monitor

Thanks to Ms. Gyasi's instinctive storytelling gifts, the book leaves the reader with a visceral understanding of both the savage realities of slavery and the emotional damage that is handed down, over the centuries. . . . By its conclusion, the characters' tales of loss and resilience have acquired an inexorable and cumulative emotional weight. -The New York Times

[Toni Morrison's] influence is palpable in Gyasi's historicity and lyricism; she shares Morrison's uncanny ability to crystalize, in a single event, slavery's moral and emotional fallout. . . . No novel has better illustrated the way in which racism became institutionalized in this country. -Vogue

Gyasi gives voice, and an empathetic ear, to the ensuing seven generations of flawed and deeply human descendants, creating a patchwork mastery of historical fiction. -Elle

A remarkable feat-a novel at once epic and intimate, capturing the moral weight of history as it bears down on individual struggles, hopes, and fears. A tremendous debut. -Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment

Rich. . . . Fascinating. . . . Each chapter is tightly plotted, and there are suspenseful, even spectacular climaxes. -Vulture

[A] commanding debut . . . will stay with you long after you've finished reading. When people talk about all the things fiction can teach its readers, they're talking about books like this. -Marie Claire

Homegoing weaves a spectacular epic. . . . Gyasi gives voice not just to a single person or moment, but to a resonant chorus of eight generations. -Los Angeles Review of Books

Moving. . . . Compelling. . . . Gyasi is an enormously talented writer. -The Dallas Morning News

I cannot remember the last time I read a novel that made me want to use the adjective perfect. . . . Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing is a feat rarely achieved: a book with the scope of world history and the craft of something much smaller. . . . The cumulative effect is staggering. -Molly McArdle, Brooklyn Magazine

Carrying on in the tradition of her foremothers-like Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Assia Djebar and Bessie Head-Gyasi has created a marvelous work of fiction that both embraces and re-writes history. -Paste

Impressive . . . intricate in plot and scope. . . . Homegoing serves as a modern-day reconstruction of lost and untold narratives-and a desire to move forward. -Miami Herald

Heart-wrenching . . . . Yaa Gyasi's assured Homegoing is a panorama of splendid faces. -Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A remarkable achievement, marking the arrival of a powerful new voice in fiction. -St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Luminous. . . . The author thrillingly depicts her characters' migrations from mud-hut villages to Harlem's jazz clubs to Ghana's silvered beaches, celebrating how place and fate shape us all. -Oprah.com

Epic . . . a timely, riveting portrayal of the global African Diaspora-and the aftereffects that li