“Homegoing” is Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi’s 2016 historical fiction novel spanning seven generations of two families linked by one person. Through the stories of each family member, “Homegoing” portrays the legacy of slavery that lingers for both the perpetrators and the enslaved, as well as the impact of institutional racism on the descendants of enslaved people, inspired by a 2009 trip to Ghana, the first time she returned there since she left with her family as an infant.