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Gyasi recalls being shy as a child, feeling close to her brothers for their shared experiences as young immigrant children in
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Mikić, Marijana (2023). "Chapter 6 Race, Trauma, and the
Emotional Legacies of Slavery in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing".
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