Second Book Club Meeting: April 10th - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Virtual and in-person!
Hey readers!
I hope that you guys who’ve already finished Homegoing have enjoyed it, and the rest of you have about a month to finish! We’ll meet on Wednesday, April 10th at 8:30pm on Zoom and in-person. Let me know if you plan on joining! All are welcome—it’s a very casual, friendly atmosphere.
There’s so much to discuss and dissect about this book and I want to hear all of your hot takes!
Questions to consider:
Favorite/least favorite part? Character? Quote? I will include some of my favorite quotes in the comments
Did you learn anything new?
Do you think one side of the family had an easier time than the other? Did one side come out “on top”?
Did you notice any threads passed down through the generations? Or an evolution of those threads (ie women’s rights)
Biggest takeaways? So much to unpack re: colonialism, imperialism, generational trauma, slavery, mass incarceration, drug addiction, history, racism, superstition, marriage, etc
Do you think it was too many topics for one book or just right?
Feel free to drop a thought in the comments or save it for the meeting! I’ll send the Zoom link closer to the date. Thanks!
“ “What I know now, my son: Evil begets evil. It grows. It transmutes, so that sometimes you cannot see that the evil in the world began as the evil in your own home. I'm sorry you have suffered. I'm sorry for the way your suffering casts a shadow over your life, over the woman you have yet to marry, the children you have yet to have.”
“ They would just trade one type of shackles for another, trade physical ones that wrapped around wrists and ankles for the invisible ones that wrapped around the mind.”