Yaa Gyasi With Dolen Perkins-Valdez Yaa Gyasi, "Homegoing" At Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., Yaa Gyasi speaks about her debut novel, Homegoing (Knopf, 2016), with Dolen Perkins-Valdez, and how a visit to the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana inspired the book. Tags: KnopfPolitics and Prose Bookstore2016First Fiction 2016July/August 2016Yaa GyasiHomegoingDolen Perkins-Valdez