5/20/2023 0 Comments Homegoing author![]() ![]() Her research involves studying the brains of mice. ![]() Wholly obsessed with her job, she maintains no social life, almost no life at all outside the lab. The narrator of "Transcendent Kingdom" is a young neuroscientist at Stanford, a Ghanaian American named Gifty. Indeed, Gyasi's ability to interrogate medical and religious issues in the context of America's fraught racial environment makes her one of the most enlightening novelists writing today. Not that there's anything derivative about this story. In a completely different register, "Transcendent Kingdom" is still and ruminative - a novel of profound scientific and spiritual reflection that recalls the works of Richard Powers and Marilynne Robinson. That debut, as many fans know, is a collection of linked stories that sweeps across four centuries with a vast group of characters in ever-changing settings. What's more, it's entirely unlike "Homegoing." Gyasi's new novel, "Transcendent Kingdom," is a book of blazing brilliance. If there are any skeptics left, they can stand down now. It was the kind of financial windfall that whips up fawning publicity and, despite the book's success, skepticism. When she was just 25, Gyasi reportedly sold her debut novel, "Homegoing," for $1 million. In such passages of mingled frustration and determination, one senses an element of autobiography. ![]() "Nothing but blazing brilliance would be enough to prove it." "I would always have something to prove," the narrator of Yaa Gyasi's new novel says. ![]()
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