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About Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, AL.  Her novel, Homegoing, won the National Books Critics Circles' John Leonard Award for best first book in 2016, the Alabama Library Association Award for Best Adult Fiction in 2017, and it has been nominated for several other literary awards.

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