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Yaa Gyasi (born 1989) is a Ghanaian-American novelist. Her work, most notably her 2016 debut novel Homegoing and her 2020 novel Transcendent Kingdom, features themes of lineage, generational trauma, and Black and African identities.
Aug 31, 2020 · Yaa Gyasi. 4.11. 149,414 ratings17,127 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Fiction (2020) Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
Sep 9, 2020 · Yaa Gyasi's first novel, Homegoing, won a National Book Critics Circle Award and a PEN/Hemingway Award. Her latest is Transcendent Kingdom. Peter Hurley/Vilcek Foundation/Penguin Random...
Written with tremendous sweep and power, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history, each life indelibly drawn, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day. 1 vote 6.7%.
Aug 20, 2020 · Jillian Tamaki. Published Aug. 20, 2020 Updated Nov. 20, 2020. [The Best Books of 2020: View our full list.] “There isn’t much literary fiction that deals with evangelicalism,” says the ...
Sep 7, 2020 · In her first novel, “ Homegoing ” (2016), the Ghanaian-American novelist Yaa Gyasi brilliantly renewed and expanded the fiction of double lives. While Du Bois treats just two people,...
Jun 7, 2016 · In Homegoing, a first novel that brims with compassion, writer Yaa Gyasi begins where the horrific Middle Passage began for so many, at the "glowing white" Castle, one of about forty commercial...
