It's full of questions like these – sometimes lofty, always personal.
Gyasi's writing is introspective and intimate.
Restraint and abandon become two sides of the same coin: "Could it get a brother to set down a needle? Could it get a mother out of bed?" The novel hops between Gifty's churchgoing childhood in Alabama, marred by racism and her brother's addiction, and her present work, experimenting on mice to find pleasure-seeking's neural mechanisms. Now, 17 years later, her mother, paralysed by depression, comes to stay – and Gifty starts to fear two may go down to one. Her family of four has halved to two: her father left her dazzling older brother Nana died of a heroin overdose when she was 11. Her equally outstanding second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, smaller in scale, is another graceful exploration of trauma reverberating through a family.Īmerican-Ghanaian Gifty is a PhD neuroscientist at Stanford. Yaa Gyasi's debut, Homegoing, was a multigenerational saga about the legacy of slavery.
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