![]() ![]() She feels like she has to be perfect, always the ‘good girl’ and has set herself very high standards. ![]() ![]() Her chosen career has personal roots, through flashback stories we discover why and find out more about what has made gifty the woman she is. Gifty is a neuroscientist, she conducts experiments to see if she can isolate the causes of addiction. Her father has long since gone back to Ghana and is a fleeting part of Gifty’s life. Gifty lives with her mother and older brother, Nana. Like author Yaa Gyasi, Gifty is of Ghanaian descent and grows up in Alabama, USA. Opening sentence: Whenever I think of my mother, I picture a queen-sized bed with her lying in it, a practiced stillness filling the room. Wow – what a read! Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi is one of those amazing books that explores so many ideas within a cohesive, engrossing narrative and manages to perfectly balance it all: working as both a heart-wrenching story and thought-provoking, wonderfully written piece that packs an emotional punch. ![]()
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