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Yaa Gyasi, was born in Ghana and raised in Alabama. . She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in English and later earned a Masters in Fine Arts from the Iowa Writer's Workshop.
Her first novel, Homegoing was a New York Times Best Seller and she was named by National Book Foundation as one of 5 under 35 writers. Homegoing written in 2016 won the PEN/Hemingway Award. |
is reading "Homegoing" written by Yaa Gyasi. Yaa Gyasi, author of Homegoing, Talks at Google Event 2017Author Quotes: "We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing?, Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there you get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.." Yaa Gyasi Homecoming
Book Review “Homegoing”—the title is taken from an old African-American belief that death allowed an enslaved person’s spirit to travel back to Africa—is rooted, like the Bible, in original sin.” Descendants: A sprawling tale of a family split between Africa and America by Laura Miller,The New Yorker, May 30, 2016
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