The moment reads as a guide to Homegoing itself. That novel is daringly expansive, its structure eschewing the idea that the story of Black people could be contained within a single generation or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The making of Yaa Gyasi into one of the most discussed modern voices of American fiction came at a slow pace — the luxury afforded ...

This is both a telling and a tricky moment: Mrs. Pinkston’s explanation of how white Americans flatten all black bodies into a single category arrives in the novel’s penultimate section; by this point ...

When the author Yaa Gyasi first visited Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle, she was only dimly aware of its history. Like most of her Ghanaian relatives, she knew it was a relic from the country’s past as a ...

If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. At 28, Gifty, the narrator of Yaa Gyasi’s revelatory new novel, ...

Making sense of the human soul is the providence of faith and art, not science. What, for that matter, even is a soul, and where does it reside? Is it in the neural pathways that transmit pleasure and ...

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,” ...

Critically acclaimed author and national bestseller Yaa Gyasi will be at Traverse City’s National Writers Series on Wednesday, September 23, beginning at 7 p.m., to discuss her stunning second novel, ...

If you’ve been paying any attention to pop culture, you’ve probably noticed an uptick in slavery narratives, particularly in Hollywood. The most recent is the History channel’s remake of “Roots,” the ...

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 ...

A pristine white castle, in all its majesty, claims its place on the Gold Coast in Ghana. Magnificent on the outside, inspiration struck from the cold underbelly. While the perfection on the outside ...

Towards the end of Yaa Gyasi’s tremendous family saga “Homegoing,” a Ghanaian teacher with revolutionary aspirations lectures his students on a problem of history: We need to rely on others’ words to ...