![]() This summer, Homegoing is one of three books assigned to all incoming Stanford freshmen. But the result, Homegoing, has made Gyasi one of America’s most celebrated young authors, one draped with awards like the National Book Critics Circle’s prize for best debut novel. At one point, she cast away three years of writing to start again. Indeed, the ensuing book would take seven years to publish. In her journal that night, she wrote that she was scared of how much research lay ahead. ![]() The realization only made it more jarring to descend into the fort’s still-rank dungeons, the suffocating, near lightless last stop for millions of captives before they passed through the “door of no return” and endured the horrors of the Middle Passage.īuffeted by images of such wildly disparate fates unfolding floors apart, Gyasi’s mind began racing with ideas for a far more ambitious book than the one she’d been working on. ![]() SUCCESS STORY: Gyasi has been touched by readers’ responses to Homegoing. ![]()
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