Jumia Books Homegoing Book By Yaa Gyasi

Effia is born on the night of a raging fire in Fanteland. As she grows up, her mother, Baaba, is cruel to her and abuses her, while her father, Cobbe, is kind. When Effia turns twelve, she begins to blossom into a young woman. She hopes to marry the next chief of the village, but Baaba has other plans for her. She tells Effia to hide her blood, and then contrives to have her marry a British man named James Collins who is the newly appointed governor of the Cape Coast Castle. Before Effia is married, Baaba gives her a black stone pendant—a piece of her mother. Effia and James Collins are then married and develop sincere affection for each other when she moves into the Castle.