![]() I knew that I wanted to cover a certain amount of years and to do that, I kind of broke down how many years within each character's life would take me from 18th century Ghana to present day America. ![]() YG: Yeah, I think the process for Homegoing was so much more tight in that I almost approached it kind of mathematically. How did those writing processes differ for you? Whereas Transcendent Kingdom mostly stays with the same characters and places throughout. And to me, Homegoing almost felt like a collection of short stories that were threaded together. But both of us loved Homegoing very much and have talked about it as we said on the podcast before. LA: So to kick things off, I'm going to ask a question that I'm sure you're still probably trying to figure out the answer to. It's out this week and we are so excited to talk about it. It's a book we've talked about on the podcast before, and we've been lucky enough to spend the past few days absorbed in her second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, a deeply layered story about a Ghanaian family living in Alabama. ![]() MC: In this week's episode, we're chatting with Brooklyn-based author, Yaa Gyasi, whose first novel Homegoing, which charts the stories of two family bloodlines beginning in 18th century Ghana and ending in the present day, won a slew of awards, including the Penn Hemingway in 2017. ![]()
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