Homegoing is a book beautifully written and unlike any other I've read so far in terms of the unique manner the story is told. We see each character only one time in their own chapter. We follow 7? generations stemming from the families of two sisters who never even got the chance to meet each other. Set part in Ghana and part in the United States, it begins in the 18th century during the atrocious crimes of slavery. The novel is told more like short stories, each chapter is the story of one character and the next chapter the story of the child or grandchild of the previous character and so on from the 18th century to the early 21st century. Homegoing abounds in sadness, tremendous pain (emotional and physical), loss, death, endurance, survival, and hope.