poco.lit.‘s favorite books of 2021
The editors of poco.lit. share their favorite books of 2021 – four novels and one book of non-fiction by five incredibly talented writers.
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Transcendent Kingdom
Addiction and family, religion and science, being Ghanaian in Alabama: these are some of the issues that Yaa Gyasi’a second novel Transcendent Kingdom confronts. Written from the perspective of Gifty, now a talented biomedical researcher at a prestigious US university, this is the story of the loss of a charismatic brother to opioid addiction, and the complex aftermath of this trauma for those he leaves behind.
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10. December 2018
Lesung mit Yaa Gyasi – The US Embassy Literary Series – 10.12.2018
Homegoing
Ein eindrucksvolles und bewegendes Buch darüber, wie Kolonialismus, Versklavung und Rassismus viele Generationen einer ghanaisch-amerikanischen Familie prägt.
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