{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Writers Unlimited","title":"Book of my Life: Pamela Sneed on 'Homegoing' by Yaa Gyasi","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1940,"description":"This is the Book of My Life podcast, in which writers talk about their favorite book: the book that inspires or moves them, and that has shaped their artistic, moral, or intellectual compass. In short, the book they would recommend to everyone. This podcast is a rebroadcast of the live program, part of the annual Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival in The Hague.\n\nIn this series of the Book of My Life podcast, we bring back recent conversations recorded during the Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival 2026 in The Hague.\n\nIn this episode, Pamela Sneed tells about Homegoing (2017) by Yaa Gyasi. Two half-sisters grow up in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and goes on to live a life of luxury. Esi is captured, sold into slavery and put on a boat to America. Homegoing tells the story of their descendants' lives over the next three hundred years. Yaa Gyasi shows the impact of slavery on multiple generations and moves freely through history – from tribal warfare and slavery in Ghana to the Civil War in America, and from the coal mines in the southern United States to the mass migration to Manhattan in the twentieth century.\n\nThis podcast is released in connection with the upcoming Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival (21–24 January 2027). Listen to the podcast here or on your favorite podcast platform.\n\nAbout Writers Unlimited\nEvery year, more than one hundred authors, poets, spoken word artists, and musicians take part in the Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival, held throughout The Hague during the third week of January in theaters, libraries, and schools. The festival focuses on live performances of poetry, storytelling, and spoken word. Authors also engage in conversations inspired by their recent books and current themes. In addition, Writers Unlimited hosts monthly Writers Series events in The Hague, bringing together writers, journalists, thinkers, poets, artists, and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ZBlY9zHMLqtPVxo-MrfVRRej5PdHzxJjJVYCUhKNrfI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82NGRl/ODAwZDllZDJhMTA4/ZTE2ZDliNjM1Mzkx/MDVmNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}