ARTICLE: "You Must Always Ask Yourself, Whose Story Am I Missing?"

[Ryan Goble]

From Teachers & Writers Magazine.....

"You Must Always Ask Yourself, Whose Story Am I Missing?"

An Interview with Yaa Gyasi by Aaron Zimmerman. Gyasi's debut novel, Homegoing, was published June 7 by Knopf and is already one of the most talked-about books of the year. The book has an ambitious scope, beginning in West Africa in the late 1700s and following the bloodlines of two half-sisters until present day. Ta-Nehisi Coates said about Homegoing, "I think I needed to read a book like this to remember what is possible. I think I needed to read a book like this to remember what happens when you pair a gifted literary mind to an epic task."

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