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 Butler ★★★★☆ 4.5 322 pages · ≈ 5 h 58 m · Moderate

The definitive edition of the complete works of the "grand dame" of American science fiction begins with this volume gathering two novels and her collected stories. An original and eerily prophetic writer, Octavia E.…