With help from Effia, James runs away from Amma and lives among the Efutu people until they are raided and killed by the Asantes. Growing up with his parents' dysfunctional political marriage, and promised since childhood to the daughter of the Fante chief, Amma, James longs to run away and marry Akosua. Quey's son, James, learns that his Asante grandfather died and returns to Asante land where he meets a farmer woman, Akosua Mensah. Realizing that to marry her would join his people, the Fantes, with the Asantes, Quey resolves to forget Cudjo and marry the Asante girl. Eventually Fiifi, along with Cudjo, raid the village of the Asante people and bring back the daughter of an Asante chief. He is frustrated by his uncle Fiifi, who seems evasive about trade relations.
When he returns, Quey is assigned to help to strengthen the ties between his familial village and the British merchants at the Cape Coast Castle. In fear of their relationship James sends Quey to England for awhile. When they are teenagers Quey and Cudjo realize that they are attracted to one another. His parents, worrying that he is friendless, eventually have him befriend a local boy named Cudjo. She returns to her family village one time, when her father dies, where her brother tells her that Baaba is not Effia's mother and that Effia is the daughter of an unknown slave.Įffia and James have a son called Quey who is raised in the Cape Coast Castle. As a result, she is married to a British merchant, James Collins, the governor of Cape Coast Castle. Known as a beauty, Effia is intended to be married to the future chief of her village, but when her mother tells her to hide her menstrual cycle, rumours spread that she is barren. Nevertheless she works hard to please her mother. Plot Effia's line Įffia is raised by her mother, Baaba, who is cruel to her.
It received the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for 2017, an American Book Award, and the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature.
The novel was selected in 2016 for the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" award, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for best first book, and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2017. Subsequent chapters follow their children and following generations. 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 captive in the dungeons below. Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016.
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