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is on page 267 of 305
“It had belonged to Old Lady, and to Abena, before her, and to James, and Quey, and Effia the Beauty before that. . . Now it reflected the ocean water before them, gold waves shimmering in the black stone.”
im suddenly not remembering what happened to esi’s line’s black stone is it in america, or was it left buried in ghana after ness was shipped off to be enslaved
also im nostalgic for past characters
— Nov 23, 2025 08:39AM
im suddenly not remembering what happened to esi’s line’s black stone is it in america, or was it left buried in ghana after ness was shipped off to be enslaved
also im nostalgic for past characters
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oh wowww im glad i didn’t read this before reading the book i wouldn’t have wanted to know any of this, it was much more interesting to read it as it happened and be surprised
— Nov 24, 2025 12:23PM
Gabby
is finished
oh wait rereading the author description it makes a lot of sense that we ended the book with a girl whose family moved from ghana to hunstville alabama specifically
i knew the author was ghanaian but I forgot that she was also raised in hunstville
— Nov 24, 2025 12:20PM
i knew the author was ghanaian but I forgot that she was also raised in hunstville
Gabby
is on page 304 of 305
ok these sources of articles for her research for this book seem very interesting i will reference them later
— Nov 24, 2025 12:18PM
Gabby
is on page 300 of 305
thanks to my dad tho
im glad he let me visit nigeria at least once and that i have family from there that live here and that visit regularly
— Nov 24, 2025 12:17PM
im glad he let me visit nigeria at least once and that i have family from there that live here and that visit regularly
Gabby
is on page 299 of 305
this whole section has is so poetic and filled with dramatic irony
— Nov 24, 2025 12:12PM
Gabby
is on page 298 of 305
“He said something to Marjorie in Fante, and she swiped back in the halting, apologetic, Twi that she had been speaking all week.”
interesting so if you speak fante you can understand twi, i cant tell if id be able to understand yoruba if i were fluent in igbo but probably a little(?) im still studying (no thanks to my dad lol)
psa teach your kids their language so they don’t lose their culture
— Nov 24, 2025 12:10PM
interesting so if you speak fante you can understand twi, i cant tell if id be able to understand yoruba if i were fluent in igbo but probably a little(?) im still studying (no thanks to my dad lol)
psa teach your kids their language so they don’t lose their culture
Gabby
is on page 296 of 305
“How could he explain to Marjorie that he wasn’t supposed to be here? Alive. Free. That the fact that he had been born, that he wasn’t in a jail cell somewhere, was not by dint of his pulling himself up by the bootstraps, not by hard work or belief in the American dream, but by chance.”
— Nov 24, 2025 12:07PM
Gabby
is on page 296 of 305
“. . . of having been a part of some thing that stretched so far back, was so impossibly large, that it was easy to forget that she, and he, and everyone else, existed in it – not apart from it, but inside of it.”
it and the consequences of it are everywhere
— Nov 24, 2025 12:05PM
it and the consequences of it are everywhere
