![]() Writing books is a dream Gyasi has held and nourished nearly all her life. Gyasi’s second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, is out in July 2020. Published in 2016, Homegoing won the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard First Book Prize and was named one of Oprah’s favorite books and a New York Times Notable Book that year. Gyasi majored in English with a creative writing emphasis at Stanford and enrolled at the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop in 2012. Scoping out local libraries anywhere she went and reading voraciously, she coped with her family’s nomadic life by retreating to her comfort zone: literature. Her family moved around the Midwest and the South every couple of years until they landed in Huntsville, Alabama, when Gyasi was 9. Gyasi moved to Columbus, Ohio, from Mampong, Ghana, in the early ‘90s, when she was 2 and her father was pursuing a PhD at Ohio State. This “formative image” inspired her 2016 debut novel Homegoing, which follows two half-sisters, born in different villages, who lived these two disparate experiences in the castle. ![]() “I started imagining the idea of the Gold Coast women walking above these dungeons and I was wondering what they knew of what was going on below,” says Gyasi. ![]()
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