Now, Gifty has made it her life's work to try to understand these psychological illnesses, depression and addiction, that have so dominated her family. This trip included a meeting with her father, who abandoned his family in Alabama to move back to Ghana when Gifty was a child. Gifty's mother has even tried to kill herself once, resulting in teenage Gifty having to spend a summer with her Ghanian relatives.
Her mother, who had lived by herself in Huntsville, Alabama, has been clinically depressed since Gifty's drug-addicted older brother died of a drug overdose several years before when he was in high school. It's a plot- and character-driven family saga that just reads so smoothly and enjoyably, you actually forget you're even weighing these big ideas.Īt the start of the novel, Gifty is finishing up her doctorate at Stanford when her depressed mother comes to live with her. But what I did not expect was it to be entertaining as hell. It's certainly as thoughtful, intelligent, and measured as I was hoping - one of the more interesting examinations of science vs. It's about a Stanford neuroscientist named Gifty who grapples with many of life's most transcendent questions.
I expected Yaa Gyasi's sophomore novel Transcendent Kingdom to be heavy.
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