![]() ![]() So I was a person who who just found herself in literature quite young. And in these books I could start to kind of encounter people, understand people and have that stability that I was seeking throughout all of these moves. ![]() ![]() And the kind of one constant was the fact that I could go to the library with my library card and check out books. I was born in Ghana, but then we lived in Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, Alabama. My family moved around a lot when I was a child. I loved reading more than just about anything else in my life at that point. And it's something I found that even as I've grown distant from that, I can't completely disentangle who I am from this early period. And yet I think when you spend that much time in a place - and so it really was such a huge part of my life. I was raised in the church, as they say, but I haven't continued to attend, and have kind of lost a lot of that early grounding that I had as I grew older and started to feel kind of politically differently than some of the teachings that I learned when I was younger. Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi Shortlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. Gyasi's 2020 novel, 'Transcendent Kingdom, focuses tightly on a daughter and mother, replacing the sweep of familial history with the collision and intermingling of faith and science. ![]() You know, similarly to Gifty, I grew up Pentecostal. Book Reviews 'Homegoing' Is A Sprawling Epic, Brimming With Compassion ![]()
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