Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Women's Prize for Fiction | 2020 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Gifty is a neuroscience PhD student at Stanford studying the neuroscience of addiction and depression when her mother—a Ghanaian immigrant to Alabama—falls into a deep depression and comes to live with her. As Gifty cares for her mother, she reckons with her brother's death from a drug overdose, her lost faith, and the boundaries between science and religion.
About the Author
Yaa GyasiGhanaian-American
Yaa Gyasi is a Ghanaian-American novelist born in Mampong, Ghana, in 1989. She grew up in Alabama and studied at Stanford University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her debut novel Homegoing (2016) won the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the American Book Award. Read more →
