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Two half-sisters born in eighteenth-century Ghana never meet: Effia marries a British slaver and lives in comfort at Cape Coast Castle, while Esi is imprisoned in its dungeons and shipped to America, and the novel follows their descendants, one chapter each, to the present.
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Segu
In the late eighteenth century, the family of Dousika Traore, a nobleman of the Bambara kingdom of Segu in what is now Mali, is scattered by Islam, the slave trade and colonialism.
Cane River
Drawn from the author's own family, the lives of four generations of women of colour along the Cane River in Louisiana, from Elisabeth, born into slavery, to her great-granddaughter Emily, across a century.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up between the city and the Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother's people have lived for generations, and as she grows older she traces her family back through slavery to the land's first people.
Desertion
In 1899 an Englishman, Martin Pearce, stumbles out of the desert into a small town on the East African coast, is nursed back to health by a shopkeeper's family, and falls in love with the shopkeeper's sister.
The Known World
In antebellum Virginia, a freed Black man becomes a slaveholder himself, and the moral catastrophe of the institution devours everyone it touches.
The Old Drift
In 1904 at the Old Drift, a settlement on the Zambezi near Victoria Falls, an Englishman's blunder sets three families, African, European and Indian, on paths that will cross over the next century in Zambia and into its near future.
Go Down, Moses
Linked stories about the McCaslin family across generations, tracing the entangled Black and white branches of a Mississippi plantation.
The Covenant of Water
In Kerala from 1900 to the 1970s, a twelve-year-old girl married to a widower she has never met founds a family that loses someone to drowning in every generation, and her granddaughter grows up to become a doctor determined to find out why.
Pachinko
Four generations of a Korean family build lives in Japan, enduring discrimination and sacrifice, connected by stubbornness and the pachinko parlours that sustain them.
The Eighth Life
Six generations of a Georgian family unfold across a century of Soviet violence, chocolate, and love, addressed by a great-aunt to her niece.
Granada
In Granada after its fall to Ferdinand and Isabella, a family of Muslim bookbinders lives through the burning of their books and the forced conversions that follow.
Celestial Bodies
Three sisters in the Omani village of al-Awafi, Mayya, Asma and Khawla, marry and live through their country's changes, from the last years of slavery to the coming of oil money.