He'd have to talk about Harlem, And how could he talk about Harlem without mentioning his father's heroin addiction - the stints in prison, the criminal record? And if he was going to talk about heroin in Harlem in the '60s, wouldn't he also have to talk about crack everywhere in the '80s? And if he wrote about crack, he'd inevitably be writing, to, about the 'war on drugs.' And if he started talking about the war on drugs, he'd be talking about how nearly half of the black men he grew up with were on their way either into or out of what had become the harshest prison system in the world. How could he talk about Great-Grandpa H's story without also talking about his grandma Willie and the millions of other black people who had migrated north, fleeing Jim Crow? And if he mentioned the Great Migration, he'd have to talk about the cities that took that flock in. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience.“Originally, he'd wanted to focus his work on the convict leasing system that had stolen years off of his great-grandpa H's life, but the deeper into the research he got, the bigger the project got. With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes.

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Inside this Instaread summary of Homegoing: She knows that as long as people think Effia is premenstrual, she won't be permitted to marry a Fante man, per tribal customs.

But to prevent Effia from marrying him, Baaba tells Effia that she must hide the blood from her first period. Effia wants to marry Abeeku Badu, who is in line to be chief. In 1775, when Effia is young, British soldiers from the Cape Coast Castle come to the village. Her adoptive mother, Baaba, immediately resents her, because Effia is the daughter of her father Cobbe's house girl. Effia is born in the late 18th century in Fanteland on Africa's Gold Coast, on the night of a devastating fire near her father's compound. The novel begins with the stories of two African half-sisters of the Fante and Asante tribes: Effia and Esi. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is a novel in stories about the Atlantic slave trade and its aftermath. Please note: This is summary and analysis of the book and not the original book.

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