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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 daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister Esi is held ...
Yaa Gyasi (born 1989) is a Ghanaian American novelist. Her work, most notably her 2016 debut novel Homegoing and her 2020 novel Transcendent Kingdom, features themes of lineage, generational trauma, and Black and African identities.
In 1996, Gardner retired from writing James Bond books due to ill health. [59] With the influence of the American publishers, Putnam's, the Gardner novels showed an increase in the number of Americanisms used in the book, such as a waiter wearing "pants", rather than trousers, in The Man from Barbarossa. [60]
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Homegoing is a science fiction novel by American author Frederik Pohl, first published in 1989 by Del Rey Books. [1] The novel was one of the nominees for the Locus SF Award , one of the awards of the Hugo Awards .
James is a novel by author Percival Everett published by Doubleday in 2024. The novel is a re-imagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain but told from the perspective of Huckleberry's friend on his travels, Jim, who is an escaped slave. The novel won the 2024 Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction.
James Heneghan (7 October 1930 – 23 April 2021), who has also written under the joint pseudonym B. J. Bond, [1] was a British-Canadian author of children's and young adult novels. [ 2 ] Biography
The book's accuracy was verified by her close friend and fellow expatriate Julian Mayfield. [88] Even though Traveling Shoes is Angelou's fifth book in her series of autobiographies, it is able to stand on its own. [89] Houston A. Baker Jr., in his review of the book, calls Angelou "one of the geniuses of Afro-American serial autobiography". [82]