![]() ![]() My dear friend from childhood is a neuroscientist, so it really felt in many ways like a conversation between my work and hers. For Transcendent Kingdom, I had to do a deep dive into a single topic-far more narrow but deeper. I was already familiar with the history to some extent. For Homegoing, the research was really wide and intensive, and I always think of it as wide but shallow-I needed to know a little bit about a lot of eras. The two books really required different kinds of research. What was your process like for two such particular types of research-the ripples of enslavement across centuries of humanity versus aspects of mice brains? SLM caught up with Gyasi by phone in advance of Saturday’s event.īoth Homegoing and Transcendent Kingdom are novels, but both obviously required a ton of research. Louis County Library Foundation presents Gyasi in conversation with Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage. Gyasi herself, 31, was born in Ghana and moved with her family to Hunstville, Alabama, when she was 10. ![]() Transcendent Kingdom follows Gyasi’s epic debut, Homegoing, which traced the legacies of two half-sisters in Ghana from the slave trade through the present. ![]() The protagonist, Gifty, comes from a Ghanaian family living in Alabama that has been cut in half, causing her to shift her focus from religion to science in her quest to make sense of her world. Yaa Gyasi’s second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, explores themes of belief, loss, doubt, love, and mice. ![]()
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