Yaa Gyasi, " Transcendent Kingdom" (with Brit Bennett)

Yaa Gyasi is the author of the highly acclaimed debut novel Homegoing and a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2016 "5 Under 35" Award. Gyasi's brilliant and relevant novel moves through histories and geographies and captures-with outstanding economy and force-the troubled spirit of our own nation. An illuminating speaker, Gyasi captivates audiences with her sincerity and compassion.
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Gyasi is in conversation with Brit Bennett, a graduate of Stanford University, who later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 awardee, and her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
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