Characters
This character starts off the book and finds out that her mother is not her birth mother.
Who is Effia?
Due to a this issue, Abena leaves her home and goes to Kumasi.
What are false promises of marriage?
This represents generational trauma for Effia's side of the family tree.
What is fire?
This is where Yaa Gyasi got her bachelors from.
What is Stanford?
This is where the Fante tribe is located.
What is the southern coast of Ghana?
This character, called "Crazy Woman", dreamt of a firewoman that eventually led her to light her own house on fire.
Who is Akua?
This character began passing down this family heirloom.
Who is Maame?
This symbolizes generational trauma for Esi's side of the family tree.
What is water?
This is how many siblings Gyasi had.
What is two?
This is a racial system that existed in the 1870's and 1960's.
This character reunites Marcus with the stone necklace passed down from Effia.
Who is Marjorie?
H is forced to work in coal mines through this system.
What is convict leasing?
This item descended from the sky and carries the soul of the Asante nation.
What is the Golden Stool?
This is the religion she grew up with.
What is Pentecostal?
This movement for equal rights went on from 1950s to 1968.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This character wants to sing in a jazz club but is denied because of colorism and later on only sings for her church.
Who is Willie?
This club is where Willie and Robert separate.
What is the Jazzing?
This item is passed through generations of the family.
What is the black stone?
This is Gyasi's most famous work.
What is Homegoing?
This is America's oldest civil rights organization.
What is the NAACP?
This character wrote a book that is his life's work.
Who is Yaw?
This group helps the miners argue for better conditions.
What is a union?
These two help each other confront generational trauma and fear.
Who are Marjorie and Marcus?
This is the book that inspired Gyasi's career as a writer.
What is Song of Solomon?
This act required police officers to arrest people suspected of escaping slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?