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Tuesday, October 11 • 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Yaa Gyasi at The Octopus

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Co-presented by THERE Reading Series and Museum of the African Diaspora

Yaa Gyasi discusses and reads from her new book Homegoing, a story of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana, and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. FREE

Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.

“Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates 

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Aaron Bady

Aaron Bady is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas, teaching African literature. He writes the blog zunguzungu.

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Yaa Gyasi

 Yaa Gyasi is an author whose debut novel, Homegoing,weaves three centuries of slavery and colonialism into the fabric of America. Born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, Gyasi holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Worksh... Read More →


Tuesday October 11, 2016 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
The Octopus Literary Salon
  Fiction   Type: Author Conversation   Type: Book Sales & Signing   Venue: Wheelchair Accessible

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