Homegoing vs Purple Hibiscus: 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…

Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2003 ★★★★☆ 4.2 307 pages · ≈ 5 h 41 m · Light

A book about a flower thing