Today, Novelist Yaa Gyasi. Her first novel Homegoing, published in 2016, was about the legacy of slavery and won a National Book critics circle Award, a Pen Hemingway award, and the National Book Foundation’s 5 under 35 honors.   Gyasi’s latest novel is Transcendent Kingdom.  The novel draws on Gyasi’s life as the daughter of immigrants from Ghana.

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(Photo: Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi – Book cover)

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