![]() There, two half-sisters-Effia from the slave-trading Fante nation and Esi from the Asante warrior nation-are born and live nearly intersecting lives without ever meeting. Homegoing is a sweeping, emotionally and morally complex epic that begins in the 18th century in the British African colony that is now Ghana. ![]() Gyasi, who turns 27 in late June, spent seven years developing her first novel. ![]() That’s definitely an end goal of a writer, to share their work with readers. I feel a lot of outside noise has come in now in a way that it never had before. I find myself being a lot more anxious than when I thought no one would read the book. “On the other hand, the stakes feel really high in a way I hadn’t anticipated. ![]() “I feel fortunate not only that my dream came true but that it’s coming true in such a huge way,” Gyasi continues. She and her boyfriend, a writer she met when they were both at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, have recently moved to the Bay Area. “I’ve wanted to be a writer my whole life, so this is really the fulfillment of a long dream,” she says during a call to her home in Berkeley, California. Yaa Gyasi sounds a bit unnerved by the prepublication buzz surrounding her stunning first novel, Homegoing, and the changes its enthusiastic early reception portend for her life. ![]()
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