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,” ...

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 ...

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 is having the kind of year every first-time novelist dreams about. The Ghanaian-born, American-raised writer’s debut novel, Homegoing, has been lauded by critics ranging from those writing ...

Remember the name Yaa Gyasi. At just 27 years old, the Ghanaian native has delivered Homegoing (Knopf, $26.95), her debut novel, and everyone from Ta-Nehisi Coates to the literati is raving about it.

Yaa Gyasi, a 2014 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, arrived on the literary scene two years later with the publication of 'Homegoing,” her deservedly acclaimed debut novel. 'Homegoing” brought ...

Yaa Gyasi straddles two continents in her life and work. The 26-year-old novelist was born in Ghana and moved with her family to the United States when she was 2. Likewise, her accomplished debut ...

On this episode of “Literary Arts: The Archive Project,” we feature a talk and conversation with novelist Yaa Gyasi. In 2016, Gyasi’s first novel, “Homegoing,” was published and immediately became a ...

In a dungeon under a fortress on the coast of Ghana, in the spot where captured Africans had once been shackled until they could be shipped to America and sold — that was where Yaa Gyasi began to plan ...

Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she held a Dean's Graduate Research ...