Yaa Gyasi
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This week, a conversation with novelist Yaa Gyasi.\\xa0 Gyasi was just 26 years old when her debut, Homegoing, was published.\\xa0 It spans eight generations, tracing the lives of two half-sisters and their descendants from eighteenth-century Ghana to present-day America.\\xa0 The book garnered major critical acclaim and praise from fellow authors like Zadie Smith and Ta-Nehisi Coates.\\xa0 Four years later, Gyasi has written another powerful work, Transcendent Kingdom.\\xa0 The protagonist, Gifty, is a doctoral candidate in neuroscience.\\xa0 Her mother, an immigrant from Ghana, suffers from depression and comes to stay with her.\\xa0 The novel examines the challenges of addiction and grief, as well as the tensions between science and faith. \\xa0On September 22, 2020, Yaa Gyasi spoke with Courtney Martin about her work.
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