Yaa gyasi's transcendent kingdom6/24/2023 Years later, Gyasi was visiting a friend who is a neuroscientist in her lab and became fascinated by her friend’s work studying mice to examine restraint and reward-seeking in the brain. “Homegoing” spanned hundreds of years following the descendants of two half-sisters from Ghana, one who married into wealth and one who was sold into slavery, with each chapter really being a distinct story about a different descendant. She wanted to explore it further but first had to return to “Homegoing,” which ultimately became an award-winning, best-selling debut that earned Gyasi a seven-figure book deal. “I loved Gifty’s voice so much and the relationship that was unfolding between these two women who wanted to understand each other but who didn’t seem to have the capacity to give each other what they needed,” Gyasi recalls. That story, “Inscape” (published in Guernica), focused on a character named Gifty, a Stanford English professor struggling to care for her mother, an exceedingly religious Ghanian immigrant. When Yaa Gyasi finished the first draft of “Homegoing,” her first novel, she decided she needed to “not think about that book for a while” and so she sat down to write a short story.
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