BEGIN:VCALENDAR X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago PRODID:-//University of Iowa//Events 1.0//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T101726Z DTSTART:20200919T140000 DTEND:20200919T150000 SUMMARY:Stanley Reads - 1 DESCRIPTION:Yaa Gyasi\, Homegoing (2016)\n\nEffia (pp. 1–26)\n Esi (pp. 27–48) \nStanley Reads is hosted by Kimberly Datchuk\, curator of learning & engagement and presented in partnership with Prairie Lights Books.\n\nRegister for Stanley Reads at https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3VR83aPIweoUmHz. Once registered\, you will receive invitations to all Stanley Reads events.\n\nRegistration will cut off at noon the Friday preceding each event. Anyone registered after that will be added to the following meeting.\n\nStanley Reads puts the museum’s recent exhibitions in conversation with literature. This fall we will consider Follow Her Lead in relation to Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Both the exhibition and novel focus on women and motherhood across time and geography. During each meeting of the book club\, we will pair artwork from the exhibition with chapters from the book to connect deeply with the themes and expand our understanding of the objects and the story.\n\nHomegoing begins in Ghana in the eighteenth century. It follows the lives of two half-sisters and eight generations of their descendants\, those who endured enslavement in America and those who remained in Africa. The powerful story shows the deep and lasting effects of slavery. \n\nYaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville\, Alabama. She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Homegoing won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the NBCC’s John Leonard Award. It is Gyasi’s first novel. \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n\n\nhttps://events.uiowa.edu/36347 LOCATION:null\, null UID:edu.uiowa.events-prod-36347 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Yaa Gyasi\, Homegoing (2016)
\n\nStanley Reads is hosted by Kimberly Datchuk\, curator of learning &\; engagement and presented in partnership with Prairie Lights Books.
\n\nRegister for Stanley Reads at https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3VR83aPIweoUmHz. Once registered\, you will receive invitations to all Stanley Reads events.
\n\nRegistration will cut off at noon the Friday preceding each event. Anyone registered after that will be added to the following meeting.
\n\nStanley Reads puts the museum’s recent exhibitions in conversation with literature. This fall we will consider Follow Her Lead in relation to Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Both the exhibition and novel focus on women and motherhood across time and geography. During each meeting of the book club\, we will pair artwork from the exhibition with chapters from the book to connect deeply with the themes and expand our understanding of the objects and the story.
\n\nHomegoing begins in Ghana in the eighteenth century. It follows the lives of two half-sisters and eight generations of their descendants\, those who endured enslavement in America and those who remained in Africa. The powerful story shows the deep and lasting effects of slavery.
\n\nYaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville\, Alabama. She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Homegoing won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the NBCC’s John Leonard Award. It is Gyasi’s first novel.
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