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Yaa Gyasi
★★★★· Published 2016· 305 pages
Eight generations of one Ghanaian family, each chapter a different descendant, a different century, a different wound. Yaa Gyasi wrote it in her mid-twenties (!), and it reads like it clawed its way out.
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