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- Yaa Gyasi: ‘I write a sentence. I delete it. I wonder if it’s too early for lunch’
From The Guardian, October 28, 2017 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young African Immigrant
New York Times, May 8, 2017 - I’m Ghanaian-American. Am I Black? by Yaa GyasiNew York Times, June 18, 2016
- Yaa Gyasi's Ambitious And Empathetic FictionPacific Standard, May 25, 2017
- Yaa Gyasi and Roger Reeves Talk ‘Homegoing,’ Ghana, Folklore and Complicity
Chicago Review of Books, February 10, 2017 - Yaa Gyasi: ‘Slavery is on people’s minds. It affects us still’
The Guardian, January 8, 2017
Yaa Gyasi's Kindle Notes and Highlights for Homegoing
Other Books by Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent Kingdom by
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.
Call Number: PS3607.Y37 T73 2020
Gyasi, Yaa. "Yaa Gyasi Discusses Debut Novel 'Homegoing"." YouTube, Wall Street Journal, 26 May 2016, https://youtu.be/wheQsYCDezE
Podcasts
- Books and Authors: Yaa GyasiFrom BBC Radio 4
- Colson Whitehead & Yaa Gyasi
Literary Arts - Yaa Gyasi
The B&N Podcast - Yaa Gyasi on Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi: Live at Politics & Prose
Yaa Gyasi on Social Media
The Books that Influenced Yaa Gyasi
Song of Solomon by Call Number: PS3563.O8749 S6 1989
Go Tell It on the Mountain by Call Number: PS3552.A45 G58 2005
Lost in the City by Call Number: PS3560.O4813 L67 2012
Unaccustomed Earth by Call Number: PS3562.A316 U53 2009
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Call Number: PQ8180.17.A73 C513 2006
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