Experience the breadth of today’s literary landscape at the 20th Anniversary Winter Words series. The featured authors will take audience members from the banks of the Colorado River, to New York City’s 1980’s art scene, to 18th century Ghana, and many unexpected places in-between.
January-April 2017
In her debut novel, 26-year old Yaa Gyasi explores the trans-Atlantic legacy of slavery stretched over eight generations. Homegoing has been compared to Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Alex Haley’s Roots, and was called “an inspiration” by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Gyasi was recently named one of the National Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35,’ which recognizes debut fiction writers whose work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape
