YAA GYASI: Thank you so much for having me.
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," unquote. In The Washington Post's review of "Transcendent Kingdom," Ron Charles describes it as, quote, "a novel of profound scientific and spiritual reflection. Throughout Gifty's life, she tries to understand how she is perceived by white people and Black people in America as the daughter of Guinean parents. Gifty's mother refuses any form of therapy because she doesn't believe in depression or mental illness. After Gifty's brother died, she says she went quiet, and her mother went insane, spending most of her time in bed. Neither religion, nor science are satisfying her need to make things clear, to make meaning. Gifty was a believer as a child, stopped going to church after her brother's death but still has a thirst for redemption and the transcendent. Gifty, like Gyasi, was raised in Alabama, and for reasons we'll get into soon, her family attended a white Pentecostal church gift.
Maybe it will help her understand how her brother got addicted to Ox圜ontin, then heroin and died of an overdose.
In the novel, the main character, Gifty, is a scientist studying the neurocircuitry of reward-seeking behavior in mice. with her parents in 1991, when she was 2. Gyasi was born in Ghana and came to the U.S. Gyasi's new novel, her second, is called "Transcendent Kingdom." The novel draws on Gyasi's life as the daughter of immigrants from Ghana. It won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a PEN/Hemingway Award and the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honors. The novel had the reception first writers dream of. TERRY GROSS, BYLINE: Yaa Gyasi's first novel, "Homegoing," published in 2016, was about the legacy of slavery in several generations of the families of two half-sisters born in Ghana in the 1700s. Today we're going to listen to an interview Terry recorded with Yaa Gyasi, author of one of the most anticipated novels of the fall season.
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