Yaa Gyasi: 2016 National Book Festival

Published: 01 December 2016
on channel: Library of Congress

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Yaa Gyasi discusses "Homegoing" at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Speaker Biography: Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She graduated from Stanford University and received an MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, where she held a dean's graduate research fellowship. Gyasi's short stories have been published in African American Review and Callaloo. Her debut novel, "Homegoing" , follows the stories of two half-sisters and their descendants through generations in Ghana and America. Gyasi lives in California.

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