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Her first novel followed the descendants of two sisters separated in eighteenth-century Ghana across three hundred years and two continents, and swept the American debut prizes.
Yaa Gyasi was born in Mampong in 1989 to Kwaku and Sophia Gyasi, and moved to the United States with her family in 1991, growing up in Huntsville, Alabama.
Her 2016 debut Homegoing traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three centuries in Ghana and America. It won the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a debut novel and an American Book Award. Her second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, followed in 2020.
Her 2016 debut Homegoing traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three centuries in Ghana and America. It won the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a debut novel and an American Book Award. Her second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, followed in 2020.
- Wikipedia — Yaa Gyasi
- Wikipedia — Homegoing (Gyasi novel)
- National Endowment for the Arts — Homegoing
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