![]() ![]() “No,” says Gifty, who turns her ontological questions on lab mice. ![]() ![]() Both times the Ghanaian matriarch has crawled mutely into bed, but this time not before asking adult Gifty if she still prays. Her formidable mother, a home health care aide, has plummeted into a second severe depression, and their family pastor has dispatched the limp woman toward Gifty via airplane from Huntsville, Alabama, “folding her up the way you would a jumpsuit.” The first episode, when Gifty was 11, arrived after an opiate overdose stole the life of 16-year-old Nana, the firstborn son and more cherished child. It unspools entirely in the voice of watchful, reticent, brilliant Gifty, 28, nearly finished with her doctorate in neuroscience at Stanford’s School of Medicine. A scientist weighs the big questions that her private trauma bequeaths her.Īfter Homegoing (2016) swept through seven generations, Gyasi’s wise second novel pivots toward intimacy. ![]()
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