Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Narrated by Dominic Hoffman
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Every chapter hands you a new character, just long enough to love them, then tears them away — and Hoffman makes you feel every loss.
- Great if you want: multigenerational epics that illuminate history through intimate lives
- Listening experience: episodic but cumulative — each chapter hits harder than the last
- Narration: Hoffman's restraint lets the weight of history speak without melodrama
- Skip if: you need one protagonist to anchor you across 300 years
About This Audiobook
Two half-sisters born on the same day in eighteenth-century Ghana — one married to an English slaver, one sold into bondage beneath her sister's feet — begin a story that unfolds across three hundred years and two continents. Yaa Gyasi's debut novel moves through generations in short, intense chapters, each following a descendant of one line or the other, from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Alabama to the jazz clubs of Harlem to the present day. The novel is simultaneously a family saga and a meditation on how the memory of captivity shapes identity.
Dominic Hoffman narrates a book that could easily fragment across its many voices and time periods, but he holds it together with a tonal consistency that honors the novel's ambition. His generational range — from eighteenth-century Ghana to modern California — is handled with sensitivity and precision. Audie Award-winning for literary fiction, this is one of the most acclaimed audiobook performances of recent years, and the accolade is earned.
