Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi – Should People Read This Ambitious Novel?

The novel Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi has been around for a few years now. I read it on the advice of a friend. It’s very much a work of historical fiction. The reader begins in the Gold Coast of the eighteenth century and finishes in the United States around the turn of the millennium. Structure […]

Review of The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Today’s blog is a review of The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. I’ve decided to add a new feature to my blog—reviews of historical novels—to get more variety and some new types of posts. The Nickel Boys is Whitehead’s follow-up to The Underground Railroad. It has earned nearly 2,000 reviews on Amazon so far, most […]