![]() How much she had to suffer and how much she had to cope with in such a young age. After he passes away due to a drug overdose, the mother falls into a deep depression. ![]() Her mother even admits to Gifty, she didn’t want more children than Nana. Nana, Gifty’s older brother, has always been the star in the family. Homesick, humiliated, he stopped leaving the house.” They leaned him against the wall and patted him down, their hands drifting up one pant leg and down the other. Each time, they took him to a little room off the exit of the store. She saw him try to shrink to size, his long, proud back hunched as he walked with my mother through the Walmart, where he was accused of stealing three times in four months. ![]() For her father the strain becomes too much he leaves the family to go back to Ghana.īut walking around with my father, she’d seen how America changed around big black men. Gifty’s mother works night and day in low paid jobs and barely has time or energy for her children. Gifty, the second child in a Ghanaian immigrant family, grows up in Alabama, where poverty and racism are parts of everyday life. But it’s also a heart-wrenching story about a young girl trying to make sense of a senseless world. It is an introspective novel, exploring the thoughts and musings of the protagonist, Gifty. Transcendent Kingdom does both in abundance. When it comes to art and literature, my favourite pieces always appeal to the head as well as the heart. ![]()
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