Well this was outstanding! Really amazing work. Set in Ghana, it's the story of two sisters - one who stays, in a relationship with a slaver, and one who is packed off in a slave ship to the United States. The book bounces between each side of the family, successive interweaving novelettes through the generations to the present day, illustrating the continuing half-life of trauma. It's the portion - somewhat more than half - that's set in Ghana that's the most interesting, although I don't know if that's because I've read a number of slave narratives from the US already, and the different perspective is reaching me in a different way. It's just very, very considered. I'm not usually one for intergenerational family epics, because they're frequently the size of a brick and I lack the patience for them, but in less than 400 pages Gyasi manages to create a number of stories, all of which can stand on their own, which nonetheless reflect everything that comes before them in the book. It's just incredibly well-done, and I'm in awe of the craft as much as I'm riveted by the story.