Yaa Gyasi
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Biography
Full Name: Yaa Gyasi
Yaa Gyasi was born in Mampong, Ghana, and raised in Huntsvillle, Alabama. Her debut novel Homegoing, published in 2016, was a Sunday Times bestseller, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best First Novel, and was shortlisted for the the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2017 Yaa Gyasi was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists and in 2019 the BBC selected her debut as one of the 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Her second book, Transcendent Kingdom, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and is a New York Times bestseller.
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As a child, Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. But when her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of life in America, their family of four becomes two. ...
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'Homegoing is a novel I wish I could have read when I was a young woman' Zadie Smith
Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the gener...
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