Voices

Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in New York City. Photo: © Michael Lionstar source: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2117741/yaa-gyasi

Biography from Open Library, CC BY-SA

The Stacks

The Book

The one title the catalogue holds so far.

Homegoing
2016
9.0out of 10from 1 rating

In the Margins

What Readers Said

The most recent reviews of Yaa Gyasi's books, newest first.

Homegoing reviewed by @libbyoverdrive
9 out of 10
Full cast on the audio and each generation gets a different voice, which sounds gimmicky and completely isn't. I finished it, sat on the end of my bed, and immediately put a hold on everything else she has written. Queue of 12 for those. Fine.
Homegoing@libbyoverdrive10 Apr 2026

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