Interest: Book Lovers
Interest: Book Lovers
Homegoing
Each year, county libraries team up to promote reading and civic dialogue through the shared experience of reading a common book. This year’s selection is Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. It begins in eighteenth century Ghana, where two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the same castle, and sold into slavery. Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: …
Armchair traveling: experience the world through these books
Published: March 12, 2018
From close to home to across the world, all without leaving your comfy chair.
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150 Years!
Published: January 3, 2018
In 1868 a group of enterprising women established what we now call the Ypsilanti District Library. To celebrate our 150th anniversary, resolve to explore all the library has to offer in 2018.
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Homegoing
Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi’s has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and–with outstanding economy and force–captures the troubled spirit of our own nation.
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