![]() Eager to see how her second offering compared, I swiftly moved it to the top of my reading pile, and tore through it in June. I had read her astonishing debut, Homegoing, while I was living in Bali in 2017, and the story of two sisters had stayed with me long after I had returned to Australia. ![]() ![]() I had already read The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet – an author who I was lucky enough to interview via Zoom one very early morning for the Bondi Literary Salon – when the shortlist was announced in April, and so the book I was most keen to read was Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. Having worked on the Women’s Prize for Fiction prior to leaving London for Sydney, it’s a prize I follow closely – and one whose shortlist I endeavour to read each year. ![]()
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