Yaa Gyasi's Novel "Homegoing" - Slave Trade Stemming from 18th C Ghana

Yaa Gyasi (b Ghana 1989) marks her debut novel with an epic an intimate look at slavery from within the African nation of Ghana & its war faring tribes and the far-flung tragedies of slavery.  The novel is broken down into separate families that broke off at 2 unbeknownst sisters and their family lineage & legacies.  The chapters break off the story-telling into many fractions that became too much of a distraction.  I kept putting down the novel with its truly devastating historic travesties and kept finding it harder to go back to Gyasi's "Homegoing" novel.  Although there is much to commend Gyasi's novel for including its courageous content and dazzling writing I made it half-way through this arduous journey and decided not to return.  "Homegoing" is an inspirational as well as purposefully shameful retelling of history's notorious practice of slavery.  I don't want to discourage readers from this well-worth reading tale, but truth be told, having gone on a journey half-way round the world and half-way through this dense book, I will not be returning.