Our protagonist in this whole affair is Gifty, a young woman in her sixth year of PhD studies in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine. When they first arrived, the idea of future prosperity took hold of them, but not for too long circumstances out of their control begin to pile up on them, as they often tend to. The story begins by introducing us to a Ghanaian family who make their way all the way to Alabama with the dream of having a better life. After all, what positive outcome could there be from being forced to leave one’s home country in search of not just a better, but a merely decent life? On the flip the side of the coin, this means many people are unfamiliar with immigration, the central topic of Yaa Gyasi‘s Transcendent Kingdom. The immigrant experience is, thankfully enough, something post people on this planet won’t end up having to go through with.
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