As Black History Month comes to a close, there is still so much to learn and understand about the depth of ingrained inequalities in contemporary society. Yaa Gyasi’s 2016 debut novel, “Homegoing,” ...

Yaa Gyasi is the author of two books published by Vintage, “Transcendent Kingdom” and “Homegoing,” and this is part one of two in which she discusses their myriad complexities. “Transcendent Kingdom” ...

Yaa Gyasi's debut novel, "Homegoing," sold for at least $1 million and was informed by her own journey as a Ghanaian-American. The book follows the descendants of two black half-sisters: one married ...

Yaa Gyasi’s second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, explores themes of belief, loss, doubt, love, and mice. The protagonist, Gifty, comes from a Ghanaian family living in Alabama that has been cut in half ...

Picture a globe glowing with places of particular misery, pain or evil: Auschwitz, Nanking, Hiroshima, Wounded Knee. Burning white hot would be a singular landmark in west Africa: Cape Coast Castle, a ...

The story of one of the summer’s most-anticipated novels begins with a trip to Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle—a symbol in stone of slavery and the walls built to ignore it. Yaa Gyasi was a college ...

Part two of two, a continuation of Yaa Gyasi’s discussion about the extraordinary explorations of her books “Homegoing” and “Transcendent Kingdom.” She speaks about goodness that is difficult to ...