Homegoing vs Kindred: Which Should You Read?

Homegoing Yaa Gyasi · 2016 ★★★★☆ 4.5 320 pages · ≈ 5 h 56 m · Moderate

“The night Effia Otcher was born into the musky heat of Fanteland, a fire raged through the woods just outside her father’s compound.”

Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016. Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two…

Kindred Octavia E. Butler · 1979 ★★★★☆ 4.3 272 pages · ≈ 5 h 02 m · Moderate

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a…