Transcendent Kingdom

Entertainment Born in Mampong, raised in Alabama, a debut that swept the prizes: Yaa Gyasi and Homegoing Yaa Gyasi, born in Mampong, Ghana, in 1989 and raised largely in Huntsville, Alabama, wrote Homegoing (2016), which traces two half-sisters' descendants across 300 years in Ghana and America. It won major debut prizes. Her second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, followed in 2020.