Yaa Gyasi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--Provided by publisher.
Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior...
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Effia y Esi nacen en Ghana durante el momento algido del comercio de esclavos a través del Atlántico. Comparten la misma madre, pero sus padres pertenecen a dos grupos étnicos diferentes, los fante y los asantes, ambos víctimas, pero también cómplices, de los colonos británicos que se dedican a la trata de personas. A las dos hermanas les aguardan destinos opuestos. En catorce capítulos magistralmente enlazados, la escritora narra la historia...