![]() ![]() The desire to seek answers and comfort in the face of trauma is familiar, and readers are invited to process alongside Gifty, touching on the collective experience of loss, grief, and healing. After her brother’s accidental heroin overdose and the deterioration of her mother’s mental health, Gifty learns to cope through academia. Gifty, who learned to compartmentalize her life’s trauma through the practice of science, is delivered as a rich character with precision and emotional depth.Ī series of flashbacks and reflections slowly paints a picture of Gyasi’s protagonist and her life in Huntsville, Alabama, shaped by changing family dynamics, religion, race, addiction, and mental health. Gyasi embodies the main character, Gifty, a first-generation African immigrant pursuing a PhD in neuroscience. ![]() Although the novel unfolds with the story of loss and addiction, there lacks grand emotional overture. ![]() One feature of Yaa Gyasi’s moving second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, takes the form of abstraction. ![]()
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