![]() ![]() The tension between Gifty’s faith and her expanding awareness of the wider world is ever present. That can make for a really rich, messy story and mining that complexity is clearly one of Transcendent Kingdom’s goals. Depending on who it comes from, it can be beautiful, inspiring, boring, hateful, or any number of other things. I can see how much skill and work it took to create this story, and I really wish that I could appreciate it more but the subject matter and stylistic choices simply didn’t work for me. ![]() It’s obvious that Gyasi is an immensely talented writer and that she put tons of time and effort into research for Transcendent Kingdom. It’s always hard to talk about a book that I can tell is good, but that I personally found boring. When her depressed mother moves in with her, Gifty reflects on the family history that got them to this point, including her brother’s drug addiction and death by overdose, and her father’s abandonment of the family due in large part to the unfamiliar racism he faced in America. ![]() Gifty, a neuroscientist who spends her days studying addiction and compulsion in mice, is the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants. ![]()
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