Book transcendent kingdom5/15/2023 ![]() thesis experiment - a study of reward-seeking behavior in mice that self-consciously mirrors her brother Nana’s struggle with opioids. Instead, Gyasi builds her characters scientifically, observation by observation, in the same way that her narrator builds her Ph.D. “I didn’t want to be thought of as a woman in science, a Black woman in science,” Gifty thinks early in the novel she is no more interested in the “immigrant cliché” of the academically successful child whose striving parents sweat blood for her success than Gyasi is in a novel that pits the home culture against the outside world to see which one wins out. Intended to demonstrate osmosis, the experiment, Gifty reflects later, suggested the central question about her and her mother: “Are we going to be OK?” ![]() Gifty and her middle-school classmates submerged an egg in various solutions, then watched as it was denuded of its shell, swelling and shriveling, changing shape and color. ![]() Gifty, the neuroscience graduate student at Stanford who narrates Yaa Gyasi’s second novel, “Transcendent Kingdom,” compares her relationship with her mother to the first bit of laboratory science she remembers performing. ![]() A family in isolation is a kind of science experiment. ![]()
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