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,” ...

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 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 is a poster child for literary kismet. The author wrote her (award-winning, best-selling) first novel, Homegoing — an epic generational tale about the systemic effects of slavery — over ...

Gyasi's debut novel, Homegoing, won a PEN/Hemingway Award. Her follow-up, Transcendent Kingdom, draws on Gyasi's life as the daughter of... Author Yaa Gyasi Says Writing Can Be 'An Act Of Love And ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The making of Yaa Gyasi into one of the most discussed modern voices of American fiction came at a slow pace — the luxury afforded ...

When Yaa Gyasi finished the first draft of “Homegoing,” her first novel, she decided she needed to “not think about that book for a while” and so she sat down to write a short story. That story, ...

On this episode of “Literary Arts: The Archive Project,” we feature a talk and conversation with novelist Yaa Gyasi. In 2016, Gyasi’s first novel, “Homegoing,” was published and immediately became a ...

In a dungeon under a fortress on the coast of Ghana, in the spot where captured Africans had once been shackled until they could be shipped to America and sold — that was where Yaa Gyasi began to plan ...