![]() Gyasi portrays Gifty in a way that makes us feel sympathetic for her yet frustrated with her at times, almost as if we’re her subconscious, brimming with thoughts of her and all her positives and negatives. student studying neuroscience who struggles to take care of her mother, who suffers from depression. ![]() The story’s main character, Gifty, is a 28-year-old Ph.D. As a result, she creates a story that serves as a heartbreaking retelling of what it means to be the outsider looking in on your life. In that case, you’d have something that gives you the same feelings as Yaa Gyasi’s ‘Transcendent Kingdom.’ Gyasi uses themes of family drama, religion, and race. Suppose you could make your brain into a dollhouse and unlock all the memories and ideas within it, reflections of your past, and unease about your future. ![]() “At times, my life now feels so at odds with the religious teachings of my childhood that I wonder what the little girl I once was would think of the woman I’ve become.” (161) Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, Knopf, 2020, $27.00, 288 pages. ![]()
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