Author
Yaa Gyasi
Yaa Gyasi is the Ghanaian-American novelist behind Homegoing (2016) and Transcendent Kingdom (2020). Homegoing follows seven generations of two half-sister bloodlines from eighteenth-century Ghana through twentieth-century America and is the canonical contemporary American multi-generational diaspora novel.
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Years active
2016-2020
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Our reviews of Yaa Gyasi's work
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 2016 review. Seven generations of two half-sister bloodlines, one in Ghana and one in America, from eighteenth-century Fanteland to present-day Stanford. Gyasi's debut and one of the canonical contemporary American diaspora novels.
Transcendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi 2020 review. A Stanford neuroscience graduate student runs reward-circuit experiments on mice while her Ghanaian-born mother lives in her apartment. Gyasi's second novel after Homegoing.
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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 2016 review. Seven generations of two half-sister bloodlines, one in Ghana and one in America, from eighteenth-century Fanteland to present-day Stanford. Gyasi's debut and one of the canonical contemporary American diaspora novels.
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi 2020 review. A Stanford neuroscience graduate student runs reward-circuit experiments on mice while her Ghanaian-born mother lives in her apartment. Gyasi's second novel after Homegoing.