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Yaa Gyasi (born 1989) is a Ghanaian American novelist. Her work, most notably her 2016 debut novel Homegoing and her 2020 novel Transcendent Kingdom , features themes of lineage, generational trauma, and Black and African identities.
Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016.Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister Esi is held ...
Transcendent Kingdom is the second novel by Ghanaian American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2020 by Alfred A. Knopf. Transcendent Kingdom was found by Literary Hub to have made 17 lists of the best books of 2020. [1]
The making of Yaa Gyasi into one of the most discussed modern voices of American fiction came at a slow pace — the luxury afforded by a debut novel. The Ghanaian American writer took seven years ...
Yaa Gyasi, 31, is set to unveil her sophomore novel, Transcendent Kingdom, in a world that needs her work more than ever. Yaa Gyasi harnesses her literary power — and wonders why the world wasn ...
The actress and comedian is developing the Yaa Gyasi novel “Transcendent Kingdom” under her first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television.
Yaa Gyasi (born 1989, Ghana/US) H. Hella Haasse (1918–2011, Netherlands) H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925, England) Barbara Hambly (born 1951, US) Judith Hand (born ...
Nikki Grimes (born 1950), children's book author and poet [13] Angelina Weld Grimke (1880–1958) Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837–1914) Rosa Guy (1922–2012) John Langston Gwaltney (1928–1998), anthropologist, author of Drylongso; Yaa Gyasi (born 1989), Ghanaian-American novelist, author of Homegoing.
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