Books by Yaa Gyasi

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Transcendent Kingdom: A novel

by Yaa Gyasi

Other fall 2020 novels of note include Yaa Gyasi’s hotly anticipated second book, Transcendent Kingdom – a follow-up to her sweeping family saga Homegoing (2016), which catapulted her to celebrity. This new novel follows a Ghanaian-American PhD candidate at Stanford University as she seeks experimental explanations for her family members’ dysfunction.

Editors’ Picks: Notable Novels of Fall 2020 recommended by Cal Flyn

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Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi

*** Winner of the 2017 Hemingway Foundation PEN Award***

Gyasi's first novel Homegoing was published with almost universally high acclaim. It is a work of historical fiction set in Ghana which covers several hundred years of history.

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