![]() ![]() Gifty is in her late twenties and finishing up her final year of a Ph.D program at Stanford University in California when her mother’s priest contacts her and says that her mother is having some mental health struggles again. It is relatively short, coming in under 300 pages and looked like the sort of book I could read in an afternoon. ![]() I picked it up on a whim because I’m trying to make sure I read books when I buy them (it’s a work in progress). I bought Yaa Gyasi’s first novel Homegoing last year for Love Your Bookshop Day and I’ve had my eye on this one, her second novel, since before that, even though I haven’t actually read Homegoing yet and I ordered it a month or two ago. I am on a reading roll at the moment, almost everything I pick up has been incredible. Tracing her family’s story through continents and generations will take her deep into the dark heart of modern America. ![]() But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought. Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother’s life, she turns to science for answers. ![]() When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two – and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away. Blurb : 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. ![]()
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