Novelist Yaa Gyasi on "Transcendent Kingdom"
After her blockbuster first novel, "Homegoing", Yaa Gyasi needed two things to find her next story: space and time. She shares the creation process of "Transcendent Kingdom".
To make a creative leap, get to know your creative self. After publishing her blockbuster first novel "Homegoing", Yaa Gyasi buckled up for a year of nonstop book touring, talking all day and trying to write in hotel rooms at night. But she realised she needed two things to find her next story: space and time. She shares the creation process of her acclaimed second novel, "Transcendent Kingdom": How she got started, how she gave herself permission to pause, and how she got the feedback she needed to bring the story home.
Novelist Yaa Gyasi is the author of "Homegoing", one of the most celebrated debut novels of 2016, and "Transcendent Kingdom", both best-sellers.
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