On the best days, I stop pleading, stop bargaining and watch-checking and fall into a rhythm so satisfying that I simply forget I’m working. So much of my writing day feels like well-digging. Sometimes I dig 200ft down before coming back up, dry. Every day I search for water.
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Yaa Gyasi
Novelist
Ghana / United States · b. 1989
Arts and letters
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Ghanaian-American novelist, author of Homegoing and Transcendent Kingdom. She was born in Mampong, Ghana, raised largely in Huntsville, Alabama, and wrote much of her first novel while at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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