Homegoing appears in 8 book lists

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Homegoing appears in 8 book lists on Shepherd.

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The best books about complicated sister relationships

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The best historical novels on love and slavery

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The best multi-generational family sagas that put the “opera” into “soap opera”

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The best novels told in interconnected short stories

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The best books to learn about the African experience of slavery and its afterlives

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