Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi  

Homegoing is  a novel “following the parallel paths of two half sisters born into two different villages in 18th century Ghana  and the paths of their descendants through 8 generations:  from the Gold Coast, to Mississippi plantations, through the Civil War, to Jazz Age Harlem.”  “It illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed–and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.”