If you’ve been paying any attention to pop culture, you’ve probably noticed an uptick in slavery narratives, particularly in Hollywood. The most recent is the History channel’s remake of “Roots,” the ...

Tickets: Wheeler Opera House box office; http://www.aspenshowtix.com Yaa Gyasi’s “Homegoing” is an epic novel that spans eight generations of two families ...

As Black History Month comes to a close, there is still so much to learn and understand about the depth of ingrained inequalities in contemporary society. Yaa Gyasi’s 2016 debut novel, “Homegoing,” ...

What if the city of Seattle became, for a few days in spring, a giant book club? What if all of us, or maybe just a lot of us, read the same book and talked about it, with friends and strangers and ...

The story of one of the summer’s most-anticipated novels begins with a trip to Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle—a symbol in stone of slavery and the walls built to ignore it. Yaa Gyasi was a college ...

Yaa Gyasi’s first novel, Homegoing, opens with a family tree tracing seven generations descended from two half sisters born in Ghana around 1750. They share the same mother, but their fathers are ...

Yaa Gyasi’s second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, explores themes of belief, loss, doubt, love, and mice. The protagonist, Gifty, comes from a Ghanaian family living in Alabama that has been cut in half ...

Yaa Gyasi's moving first novel, Homegoing, portrays the brutality of slavery in the American South in a no-holds-barred epic that spans two continents and seven generations of the offspring of two ...

This is both a telling and a tricky moment: Mrs. Pinkston’s explanation of how white Americans flatten all black bodies into a single category arrives in the novel’s penultimate section; by this point ...

Tickets: Wheeler Opera House box office; http://www.aspenshowtix.com Yaa Gyasi’s “Homegoing” is an epic novel that spans eight generations of two families ...

Towards the end of Yaa Gyasi’s tremendous family saga “Homegoing,” a Ghanaian teacher with revolutionary aspirations lectures his students on a problem of history: We need to rely on others’ words to ...

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake,” wrote James Joyce in Ulysses. Yaa Gyasi, a writer with a rich talent for visceral story-telling, is part of the wake-up crew. Ancestral curses ...