We’re Going To Need More Wine is a collection of stories that are so transparent and real, from stories about infertility, rape to racism and Hollywood.

Tracing the 300-year-long effects of an initial sin, Gyasi's enormous epic of African families oppressed by — and occasionally exploiting — the traffic in human chattel is overshadowed by the building like a curse.

In Half of a Yellow Sun, a pivotal period in contemporary African history is reenacted, including the frightening brutality that ensued after Biafra's passionate 1960s campaign to form an independent republic in Nigeria.